Flutter for Beginners. An introductory guide to building cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter 2.5 and Dart - Second Edition

Thomas Bailey, Alessandro Biessek, Trevor Wills

There have been many attempts at creating frameworks that are truly cross-platform, but most struggle to create a native-like experience at high performance levels. Flutter achieves this with an elegant design and a wealth of third-party plugins, making it the future of mobile app development. If you are a mobile developer who wants to create rich and expressive native apps with the latest Google Flutter framework, this book is for you.This book will guide you through developing your first app from scratch all the way to production release. Starting with the setup of your development environment, you'll learn about your app's UI design and responding to user input via Flutter widgets, manage app navigation and screen transitions, and create widget animations. You'll then explore the rich set of third party-plugins, including Firebase and Google Maps, and get to grips with testing and debugging. Finally, you'll get up to speed with releasing your app to mobile stores and the web.By the end of this Flutter book, you'll have gained the confidence to create, edit, test, and release a full Flutter app on your own.

Flutter for Beginners. An introductory guide to building cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter and Dart 2

Alessandro Biessek

Google Flutter is a cross-platform mobile framework that makes it easy to write high-performance apps for Android and iOS. This book will help you get to grips with the basics of the Flutter framework and the Dart programming language.Starting from setting up your development environment, you’ll learn to design the UI and add user input functions. You'll explore the navigator widget to manage app routes and learn to add transitions between screens. The book will even guide you through developing your own plugin and later, you’ll discover how to structure good plugin code. Using the Google Places API, you'll also understand how to display a map in the app and add markers and interactions to it. You’ll then learn to improve the user experience with features such as map integrations, platform-specific code with native languages, and personalized animation options for designing intuitive UIs.The book follows a practical approach and gives you access to all relevant code files hosted at github.com/PacktPublishing/Flutter-for-Beginners. This will help you access a variety of examples and prepare your own bug-free apps, ready to deploy on the App Store and Google Play Store.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with Dart programming and have the skills to develop your own mobile apps or build a career as a Dart and Flutter app developer.

Flutter for Beginners. Cross-platform mobile development from Hello, World! to app release with Flutter 3.10+ and Dart 3.x - Third Edition

Thomas Bailey, Alessandro Biessek, Trevor Wills

There have been many attempts at creating frameworks that are truly cross-platform, but most struggle to create a native-like experience at high-performance levels. Flutter achieves this with an elegant design and a wealth of third-party plugins, solidifying its status as the future of mobile app development. If you are a mobile developer who wants to create rich and expressive native apps with the latest Google Flutter framework, this book is for you.You’ll start with the basics of cross-platform development frameworks, specifically Flutter. You’ll then explore the Dart programming language which is the foundation of the Flutter framework. Next, you’ll get a feel for Flutter and how to create your first app, followed by an exploration of the various popular plugins that supplement the Flutter framework. Finally, you’ll explore testing and app release, including some common glitches that you may experience.By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to create and release a basic Flutter app along with gaining a solid understanding of the Flutter framework and Dart language.

Flutter i Dart 2 dla początkujących. Przewodnik dla twórców aplikacji mobilnych

Alessandro Biessek

Flutter to opracowany przez Google framework do tworzenia aplikacji mobilnych, które świetnie wyglądają i dobrze działają w systemach Android i iOS. Pisanie reaktywnych aplikacji we Flutterze jest przyjemną i efektywną pracą. Język Dart został bowiem zbudowany tak, by ułatwić pisanie poprawnego kodu. Flutter jest intensywnie rozwijany przez Google: framework co kilka tygodni zyskuje nowe funkcjonalności. Mimo że to relatywnie nowe rozwiązanie, cieszy się dużą popularnością. Liczba poważnych aplikacji napisanych we Flutterze stale rośnie. Dzięki temu przewodnikowi płynnie rozpoczniesz pisanie aplikacji we Flutterze w języku Dart. Dowiesz się, jak skonfigurować środowisko programistyczne i rozpocząć projekt. Książka poprowadzi Cię przez proces projektowania interfejsu użytkownika i funkcji umożliwiających poprawną pracę aplikacji. Nauczysz się pisać własne wtyczki (tzw. plug-iny). Poznasz techniki poprawy wrażeń użytkownika i dowiesz się, jak tworzyć dobre, intuicyjne interfejsy. Dzięki licznym wyjaśnieniom, przykładom i wskazówkom nauczysz się pisać aplikacje wolne od błędów i gotowe do wdrożenia w App Store i Google Play. W efekcie dobrze przygotujesz się do projektowania aplikacji we Flutterze na wysokim, profesjonalnym poziomie. W książce: podstawy języka programowania Dart i koncepcje interfejsu Fluttera pisanie wtyczek i widżetów Fluttera stylizacja aplikacji i poprawa wrażeń użytkownika we Flutterze stosowanie komponentu AnimatedBuilder uzyskiwanie natywnej wydajności aplikacji Flutter od Google. Specjalnie dla profesjonalnych twórców najlepszych aplikacji!