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Flutter Projects

You're reading from   Flutter Projects A practical, project-based guide to building real-world cross-platform mobile applications and games

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647773
Length 490 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Simone Alessandria Simone Alessandria
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello Flutter! 2. Miles or Kilometers? Using Stateful Widgets FREE CHAPTER 3. My Time - Listening to a Stream of Data 4. Pong Game - 2D Animations and Gestures 5. Let's Go to the Movies - Getting Data from the Web 6. Store That Data - Using Sq(F)Lite To Store Data in a Local Database 7. Firing Up the App - Integrating Firebase into a Flutter App 8. The Treasure Mapp - Integrating Maps and Using Your Device Camera 9. Let's Play Dice: Knockout - Creating an Animation with Flare 10. ToDo App - Leveraging the BLoC Pattern and Sembast 11. Building a Flutter Web App 12. Assessment 13. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

Integrating Google Maps into Flutter

For this project, we'll be using the Google Maps API to show the user a map and add markers to it. As with other Google services, Maps is free up to a certain threshold. You, as a developer, should be able to use it for free in most cases. For production purposes, though, this threshold might not be enough.

For details about pricing and thresholds in Google Maps for a production app, have a look at the following page: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/.

Let's begin integrating our maps into Flutter, as follows

  1. Create a new Flutter app, and call it treasure_mapp.
  2. Add the Google Maps plugin as a dependency in the pubspec.yaml file. The package is called google_maps_flutter, and you can find the latest version on pub.dartlang.org. The code can be seen in the following snippet:
dependencies:
google_maps_flutter: ^0.5...
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