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Simone Alessandria
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Simone Alessandria wrote his first program when he was 12. It was a text-based fantasy game for the Commodore 64. Now, he is a trainer (MCT), author, speaker, passionate software architect, and always a proud coder. He is the founder and owner of Softwarehouseit. His mission is to help developers achieve more through training and mentoring. He has authored several books on Flutter, including Flutter Projects, published by Packt, and web courses on Pluralsight and Udemy.
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Interacting with desktop menus

Desktop apps have menus that do not exist on mobile form factors. Typically, you expect to see the important actions of a desktop app in its top menu.

In this recipe, you will learn how to add a menu that works on Windows and macOS.

Getting ready

Before following this recipe, you should have completed the first recipe in this chapter, Creating a responsive app leveraging Flutter Web.

Depending on where you want to run your app, you should also have completed one of the previous recipes in this chapter:

  • For Windows: Running your app on Windows
  • For macOS: Running your app on macOS

How to do it...

In order to add a menu to your desktop app, follow the next steps:

  1. In your project, add the dependency to the menu_bar package by typing in your Terminal:
    flutter pub add menu_bar
    
  2. At the top of the book_list_screen.dart file, add the menubar import, and hide MenuBar from the material...
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Simone Alessandria

Simone Alessandria wrote his first program when he was 12. It was a text-based fantasy game for the Commodore 64. Now, he is a trainer (MCT), author, speaker, passionate software architect, and always a proud coder. He is the founder and owner of Softwarehouseit. His mission is to help developers achieve more through training and mentoring. He has authored several books on Flutter, including Flutter Projects, published by Packt, and web courses on Pluralsight and Udemy.
Read more about Simone Alessandria