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Flutter for Beginners

You're reading from   Flutter for Beginners An introductory guide to building cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter 2.5 and Dart

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Last Updated in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800565999
Length 370 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Thomas Bailey Thomas Bailey
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Alessandro Biessek Alessandro Biessek
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Flutter and Dart
2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Flutter FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: An Introduction to Dart 4. Chapter 3: Flutter versus Other Frameworks 5. Chapter 4: Dart Classes and Constructs 6. Section 2: The Flutter User Interface – Everything Is a Widget
7. Chapter 5: Widgets – Building Layouts in Flutter 8. Chapter 6: Handling User Input and Gestures 9. Chapter 7: Routing – Navigating between Screens 10. Section 3: Developing Fully Featured Apps
11. Chapter 8: Plugins – What Are They and How Do I Use Them? 12. Chapter 9: Popular Third-Party Plugins 13. Chapter 10: Using Widget Manipulations and Animations 14. Section 4: Testing and App Release
15. Chapter 11: Testing and Debugging 16. Chapter 12: Releasing Your App to the World 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Where can I find plugins?

Flutter has a very easy way to find the plugins that you may need via the https://pub.dev site that they maintain. This is where all plugins are registered and the primary way that developers find plugins.

This site not only allows you to search for plugins but also includes useful sections such as the following:

  • Flutter favorites: Plugins that demonstrate the highest levels of quality.
  • Most popular packages: The most downloaded plugins.
  • Package of the week: This is a series of animated videos that introduce some of the plugins available. Flutter has been very successful in the use of short videos to introduce the widget of the week and has rolled out the concept of package of the week.

Let's now take a look at the individual entries for a plugin at pub.dev.

Plugin entry

One of my personal favorite plugins is the one that introduces a new widget, the AutoSizeText widget. Just like the name suggests, this widget will resize...

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