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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

Hot reload – refresh your app without recompiling

Probably one of the most important features in Flutter is stateful hot reload. Flutter has the ability to inject new code into your app while it's running, without losing your position in the app. The time it takes to update code and see the results in an app programmed in a platform language could take several minutes. In Flutter, this edit/update cycle is down to seconds. This feature alone gives Flutter developers a competitive edge.

The best way to use Hot Reload and its cousin, Hot Restart, is through your IDE. You can configure your Flutter plugin to execute a hot reload every time you save your code, causing the whole feature to become almost invisible.

In Android Studio/Intellij IDEA, open the Preferences window and type hot into the search field.  This should quickly jump you to the correct setting:

Verify that the Perform hot reload on save setting is checked. While you are there, double...

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