Have you ever thought of creating beautiful, blazing-fast native apps
for iOS and Android from a single codebase? Have you dreamt of taking
your native apps to the web and desktop without it costing a fortune? If
so, Pragmatic Flutter: Building Cross-Platform Mobile Apps for
Android, iOS, Web & Desktop is the right place to start your journey
to developing cross-platform apps. Google's Flutter is the brand-new way
for developing beautiful, fluid, and blazing-fast cross-platform apps
for Android, iOS, web, and desktops (macOS, Linux, Windows).
Google's new Fuchsia OS user interface (UI) is implemented using Flutter
as well. Learning to develop mobile apps with Flutter opens the door to
multiple devices, form-factors, and platforms using a single codebase.
You don't need any prior experience using Dart to follow along in this
book; however, it's recommended that readers have some familiarity with
writing code using one of the object-oriented programming languages.
Your journey starts with learning to structure and organize the Flutter
project to develop apps for multiple platforms. Next, you will explore
the fundamentals of Flutter widgets. The journey continues with
Flutter's layout widgets while also learning to build responsive
layouts. You will get an understanding of organizing and applying themes
and styles, handling user input, and gestures. Then you will move on to
advanced concepts, such as fetching data over the network and
integrating and consuming REST API in your app. You will get hands-on
experience on design patterns, data modeling, routing, and navigation
for multi-screen apps. When you are finished, you will have a solid
foundational knowledge of Flutter that will help you move on to building
great and successful mobile apps that can be deployed to Android, iOS,
web, and desktop (macOS, Linux, Windows) platforms from a single
codebase.
