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- Write a cross-platform app that will run on any of the 5 billion iOS/Android cell phones in the world
- Develop and debug Flutter apps like a pro
- Apply programming knowledge from other fields or start from scratch
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Flutter
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Foundational Flutter
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Above and Beyond
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About this book
Create iOS and Android apps with Flutter using just one codebase. App development on multiple platforms has historically been difficult and complex. This book breaks down complex concepts and tasks into easily digestible segments with examples, pictures, and hands-on labs with starters and solutions.
In doing so, you'll develop a basic understanding of the Dart programming language; the entire Flutter development toolchain; the differences between stateful and stateless widgets; and a working knowledge of the architecture of apps. All the most important parts of app development with Flutter are covered in this book. Work with themes and styles. Develop custom widgets. Teach your app to respond to gestures like taps, swipes, and pinches. Design, create and control the layout of your app. Create tools to handle form data entry from users. And ultimately create killer multiscreen apps with navigation, menus, and tabs.
Flutter is Google's new framework for creating mobile apps that run on iOS and Android phones both.You had to be a super-developer to write apps for iOS or Android alone. But writing for both? Forget about it! You had to be familiar with Swift, Java/Kotlin, Xcode, Eclipse, and a bunch of other technologies simultaneously. Beginning App Development with Flutter simplifies the entire process.
What You'll Learn
Get the most out of great Flutter widgets
- Create custom widgets, both stateless and stateful
- Exercise expert control over your Flutter layouts
- Make your app respond to gestures like swiping, pinching and tapping
- Initiate async Ajax calls to RESTful APIs — including Google Firebase!
Who This Book Is For
Developers who have coded in Java, C#, C++, or any similar language. It brings app development within the reach of younger developers, so STEM groups are likely to pick up the technology. Managers, product owners, and business analysts need to understand Flutter's capabilities.
Authors and Affiliations
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Dallas, USA
Rap Payne
About the author
Rap Payne has focused on mobile development since he started Agile Gadgets, a mobile app development company in 2003. He is a consultant, trainer, and entrepreneur who has written apps, mentored developers, and taught software development classes for Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, Walmart, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, Honda,CVS, GE, Chase, HP, Lockheed, Exxon-Mobil, Lowe's, Nike, J.C. Penney, USAA, Walgreen's, and government agencies like the US Air Force, Navy, Army, NASA, Britain's GCHQ, Canada's postal service, and several provincial governments, to name a few.
As a professional mentor and trainer, Rap has developed a talent for communicating highly complex ideas in easy-to-understand ways. And as a real-world developer, he understands the need to teach these topics using practical and realistic examples and exercises.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning App Development with Flutter
Book Subtitle: Create Cross-Platform Mobile Apps
Authors: Rap Payne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5181-2
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Rap Payne 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-5180-5Published: 05 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-5181-2Published: 04 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 309
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 126 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mobile Computing, Apple and iOS