Programming Flutter by Zaccagnino, Carmine -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Programming Flutter

About the Pragmatic Bookshelf Table of Contents Early Praise for Programming Flutter Acknowledgments Preface

A Brief History of Flutter Why Flutter Matters and What We’ll See in This Book Don’t Know Dart? Don’t Worry About It Installing the SDK and the IDE Plugins Where We’re Going Next: Let’s Start Building A pps

Part 1: Getting Started with Flutter

Chapter 1: Making Your First Flutter App

Get Familiar with Dart Syntax and Flutter Clas ses Give the App Your Personal Touch Where We’re Going Next

Chapter 2: Laying Out More Widgets

Introducing Layout Widgets Contain and Add Padding to Widgets Using Invis ible Layout Widgets Add Your Own Assets to the App Displaying Images Vertical Layout Horizontal Layout: The Row Making Grids The Card Fill the Space Available in the Vie w Using Expanded Slivers, Custom Scrollables, and Col lapsable App Bars The Key Where We’re Going Next

Chapter 3: Building a Calculator App

Importing Basic Dependencies Writing main The Calculator’s Home Page How the App Will Be Structured Implement the Basic Layout Let’s Give the Calculator a S creen Add the Deletion Row The Third Row Why a GridView Wouldn’t Work Make the App Look and Work Righ t with Expanded The Finished Layout Implement the Calculations Use the Calculation Inside the App Wrapping Up the Calculator What If We Try to Divide by 0? Where We’re Going Next

Chapter 4: Beyond the Standard Library: Plugins and Packages

An Introduction to Packages Package Usage Example Making Your Own Packages Publishing a Package to Pub Packages for Windows, macOS, and Linux Where We’re Going Next

Part 2: Doing More with Flutter

Chapter 5: Network and Storage I/O and Navigation

The API The http Package Writing Methods to Fetch Comics What You Need to Build the UI : Navigation and the InheritedWidget Build the App’s Basic UI Building the Comic Page Using the CircularProgressIndic ator Making Everything Faster by Cach ing to Local Storage Allowing the User to Click the Image and Go t o the Website: The url_launcher Package Adding Comic Selection by Number Permanent Data I/O in Flutter: Adding “Starre d” Comics Where We’re Going Next

Chapter 6: Testing and Debugging Flutter Apps

Testing Testing the XKCD App: Using Mock Objects Throwing and Catching Exceptions Assert Statements Where We’re Going Next

Chapter 7: Build a Chat App Using Firebase

What Is Firebase? Animations and Transistions Custom Shapes and Drawing in Flutter Apps Usi ng Painters The StreamBuilder Building the Chat App Where You’re Going Next

Appendix 1: Introduction to Dart

Comments in Dart Variables and Conditions Functions main Asynchronous Code in Dart: The dart:asyn c Library Conditional Constructs and Expres sions Loops: while, do while, and for Classes Typedef and Callbacks Mastering import Conversion Between Native Jav a/Apple and Dart Data Types Where You’re Going Next

Appendix 2: Apple-Like Look and Additional App Configuration

Cupertino Widgets pubspec.yaml Platform-Specific Setup You May Be Interested In…