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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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Brian Kayfitz Brian Kayfitz
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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

Creating your own package (part 1)

While using packages made by other developers can really boost your app creation speed, sometimes you need to create your own packages. Some of the main reasons for creating a new package are as follows:

  • Modularity
  • Code reuse
  • Low-level interaction with a specific environment

Packages help you write modular code, as you can include several files and dependencies in a single package, and just depend on it in your app. At the same time, code reuse is made extremely simple, as packages can be shared among different apps. Also, when you make changes to a package, you only need to make them in one place, and they will automatically cascade to all the apps that point to that package.

There is a special type of package, called a plugin, that contains platform-specific implementations, for iOS, Android, and other systems. You generally create a plugin when you need to interact with specific low-level features of a system. Examples include hardware, such...

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