Flutter for Beginners: Introductory guide to kickstart your cross-platform mobile app career with Flutter and Dart

Learn from real-world examples to build, launch, and maintain your own Flutter apps with this extensive beginner's guide

Key Features

• Familiarize yourself with Dart and Flutter fundamentals through practical, real-world examples
• Explore widgets, animations, and plugins to craft intuitive UIs
• Package and deploy your Flutter apps to achieve native-like performance
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

The Fourth edition of Flutter for Beginners is fully updated for the latest Flutter and Dart releases, ready to guide you from taking your first steps in Flutter to publishing your first cross-platform app. Designed for new developers and those transitioning from other technologies, this practical guide shows you how to build, test, and release high-quality mobile apps for iOS, Android, and the web.

With a project-based approach, this book will help you master the fundamentals of Dart and Flutter’s widget-driven architecture while building a complete app from scratch. Each chapter builds on the last with step-by-step explanations that will teach you how to design beautiful interfaces, manage state, handle navigation and user input, and add animations that bring your UI to life.

You’ll explore popular third-party plugins such as Firebase and Google Maps, learn to debug and test your code effectively, and prepare your app for release on multiple platforms.

By the end of this book, you’ll have the hands-on experience and confidence to design, build, and publish your own Flutter apps using the latest best practices.

What you will learn

• Explore Flutter core concepts and use for cross-platform development
• Gain a solid understanding of the fundamentals of Dart
• Work with Flutter widgets and learn about stateful/stateless widgets
• Take on advanced fundamentals such as navigation and state management
• Add animation using animated widgets and advanced animation techniques
• Manage the entire development lifecycle, including testing and debugging
• Release your app to both mobile stores and the web

Who this book is for

This book is for developers looking to learn Google's revolutionary framework Flutter from scratch. No prior knowledge of Flutter or Dart is required.

Table of Contents

1. What is Flutter and why should I use it?
2. An Introduction to Dart
3. Flutter versus Other Frameworks
4. Dart Classes and Constructs
5. Building Your User Interface through Widgets
6. Handling User Input and Gestures
7. Let's Get Graphical!
8. Routing – Navigating between Screens
9. Maintaining application state
10. Flutter plugins - Get great functionality for free!
11. Popular Third-Party Plugins
12. Using Widget Manipulations and Animations
13. Testing and Debugging
14. Releasing Your App to the World

Thomas Bailey has an extensive background in tech, working for companies and high profile firms as a senior developer, solutions architect and IT director. His education technology company uses Flutter solely as the technology powering their education apps, and he has enjoyed watching Flutter move its initial beta release to a fully fledged and highly popular framework we see today.

Alessandro Biessek was born in the beautiful city of Chapecó, in the state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, in 1993. He is currently working on mobile application development for Android and iOS in his hometown. He has more than 9 years of experience in development, from desktop development with Delphi to backend with PHP, Node.js, Golang, mobile development with Apache Flex, and Java/Kotlin. Most of his time is devoted to the development of Android apps. Always interested in new technologies, he has been following the Flutter framework for a long time, shown through its growth and adoption in recent months.