Flutter Apprentice (First Edition): Learn to Build Cross-Platform Apps

Description

Build for iOS & Android With Flutter! Flutter is an exciting development toolkit that lets you build apps for iOS, Android and even web and desktop, all from a single codebase. It uses a declarative approach to UI development. You can "hot reload" code while developing, and apps will perform at native speed thanks to its custom rendering engine. With Flutter and Flutter Apprentice, you can achieve the dream of building fast applications, faster. Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who are new to Flutter, and also developers that already have some experience with building apps for the iOS and Android platforms, or web apps. Topics Covered in Flutter ApprenticeWidgets: Use Flutter widgets to build modern mobile user interfaces.Navigation: Navigate between multiple screens within a Flutter app, including using deep links.Networking and Persistence: Fetch data from the network, parse the JSON response and cache data locally in a SQLite database.State Management: Explore the all-important idea of state management in Flutter and learn about various state management techniques and tools.Streams: Learn about Dart streams and how to use them in Flutter apps.Deployment: Learn to prepare and deploy your app to mobile app stores. One thing you can count on: After reading this book, you’ll be prepared to create and deploy full-featured mobile apps to both the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store, without having to write two separate apps. Book License What You Need Book Source Code & Forums About the Cover About the Authors About the Editors About the Artist Acknowledgements Content Development Introduction How to read this book Chapter 1: Getting Started What is Flutter? Flutter’s history The Flutter architecture What’s ahead Getting started Getting the Flutter SDK Trying it out Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 2: Hello, Flutter Creating a new app Making the app yours Clearing the app Building a recipe list Adding a recipe detail page Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 3: Basic Widgets Getting started Styling your app Setting a theme App structure and navigation Creating custom recipe cards Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 4: Understanding Widgets What is a widget? Unboxing Card2 Rendering widgets Getting started Types of widgets Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 5: Scrollable Widgets Getting started Introducing ListView Setting up ExploreScreen Creating a FutureBuilder Building Recipes of the Day Nested ListViews Creating FriendPostListView Adding final touches for ExploreScreen Getting to Know GridView Building the Recipes screen Other scrollable widgets Challenges Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 6: Interactive Widgets Getting started Creating the grocery item model Creating the Grocery screen Creating the empty Grocery screen Switching tabs Managing tab state Managing the grocery items Adding new packages Creating GroceryItemScreen Creating GroceryTile Building GroceryTile Finishing GroceryTile Saving the user’s work Creating GroceryListScreen Adding gestures Dismissing items with a swipe Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 7: Routes & Navigation Introducing Navigator Navigator 1.0 overview Navigator 1.0’s disadvantages Navigator 2.0 overview Navigation and unidirectional data flow Is Navigator 2.0 always better than Navigator 1.0? Getting started Changes to the project files Looking over the UI flow Managing your app state Creating the router Using your app router Adding screens Showing the Splash screen Displaying the Login screen Transitioning from Login to Onboarding screen Transitioning from Onboarding to Home Handling tab selection Showing the Grocery Item screen Navigating to the Profile screen Navigating to raywenderlich.com Logging out Handling the Android system’s Back button Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 8: Deep Links & Web URLs Understanding deep links Getting started Overview of Fooderlich’s paths Recapping Navigator 2.0 Deep links under the hood Creating a navigation state object Creating a route information parser Connecting the parser to the app router Converting a URL to an app state Converting the app state to a URL Testing deep links Running the web app Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 9: Shared Preferences Getting started Saving data The shared_preferences plugin Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 10: Serialization With JSON What is JSON? Automating JSON serialization Creating model classes Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 11: Networking in Flutter Signing up with the recipe API Using the HTTP package Connecting to the recipe service Building the user interface Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 12: Using the Chopper Library Why Chopper? Preparing to use Chopper Preparing the recipe service Converting request and response Encoding and decoding JSON Using interceptors Generating the Chopper file Logging requests & responses Using the Chopper client Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 13: State Management Architecture Why you need state management Widget state Application state Managing state in your app Using Provider UI Models Creating the recipe class Convert data into models to display Creating a repository Creating a memory repository Using a mock service Other state management libraries Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 14: Streams Types of streams Adding streams to Recipe Finder Sending recipes over the stream Exercise Switching between services Adding streams to Bookmarks Adding streams to Groceries Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 15: Saving Data With SQLite Databases Adding a database to the project Adding an SQLite repository Running the app Using Moor Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 16: Platform Specific App Assets Setting the app icon Setting the app’s name Adding a launch screen Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 17: Build & Release an Android App Set up for release Build an app bundle Uploading to the Google Play Store Uploading a build Distribution Key points Where to go from here? Chapter 18: Build & Release an iOS App Creating the signing Setting up the App Store Uploading to the App Store Sharing builds through TestFlight Key points Where to go from here? Conclusion Appendix A: Chapter 5 Solution 1 Appendix B: Chapter 5 Solution 2