Interacting with desktop menus

Desktop apps have menus that do not exist on mobile form factors. Typically, you expect to see the important actions of a desktop app in its top menu.

In this recipe, you will learn how to add a menu that works on Windows and macOS.

Getting ready

Before following this recipe, you should have completed the first recipe in this chapter, Creating a responsive app leveraging Flutter Web.

Depending on where you want to run your app, you should also have completed one of the previous recipes in this chapter:

• For Windows: Running your app on Windows
• For macOS: Running your app on macOS

How to do it...

In order to add a menu to your desktop app, follow the next steps:

1. In your project, add the dependency to the menu_bar package by typing in your Terminal:

   flutter pub add menu_bar
   

2. At the top of the book_list_screen.dart file, add the menubar import, and hide MenuBar from the material...