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Flutter Cookbook

You're reading from   Flutter Cookbook Over 100 proven techniques and solutions for app development with Flutter 2.2 and Dart

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838823382
Length 646 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Simone Alessandria Simone Alessandria
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Flutter 2. Dart: A Language You Already Know FREE CHAPTER 3. Introduction to Widgets 4. Mastering Layout and Taming the Widget Tree 5. Adding Interactivity and Navigation to Your App 6. Basic State Management 7. The Future is Now: Introduction to Asynchronous Programming 8. Data Persistence and Communicating with the Internet 9. Advanced State Management with Streams 10. Using Flutter Packages 11. Adding Animations to Your App 12. Using Firebase 13. Machine Learning with Firebase ML Kit 14. Distributing Your Mobile App 15. Flutter Web and Desktop 16. About Packt

How to do it...

To implement separation of concerns for views and models, follow these steps: 

  1. The best place to start is the data layer. This will give you a clear view of your app, without going into the details of your user interface. In the models folder, create a file called task.dart and create the Task class. This should have a description string and a complete Boolean, as well as a constructor. This class will hold the task data for our app. Add the following code:
class Task {
String description;
bool complete;

Task({
this.complete = false,
this.description = '',
});
}
  1. We also need a plan that will hold all our tasks. In the models folder, create plan.dart and insert this simple class:
import './task.dart';

class Plan {
String name = '';
final List<Task> tasks = [];
}
  1. We can wrap up our data layer by adding a file that will export both models. That way, our imports will not get too bloated as the app grows...
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