Beginning App Development with Flutter: Create Cross-Platform Mobile Apps by Payne, Rap
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Beginning App Development with Flutter: Create Cross-Platform Mobile Apps by Payne, Rap

Beginning App Development with Flutter: Create Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

Apress
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Section: Introduction to Flutter

1. Hello Flutter

  • Chapter Synopsis: Setting the stage for the book. Give the reader a feel for why they're here. What problems does Flutter solve? Why the boss would choose Flutter versus some other solution.
  • What is covered in this book
    • Brief chapter overview and roadmap
  • What is notcovered and where to find answers to your questions
    • The Dart language itself - There's an overview and cheatsheet in the Appendix
    • Deploying to a store
    • Device-specific programming
  • Who is this book for?
    • Who's a good fit and who is not
    • Where to go to satisfy the prerequisites
  • What is Flutter?
    • Problems it solves
      • Where it came from - Brief history and origins
  • Competitors to Flutter
    • What other options are available? What might you use if not Flutter? Advantages and disadvantages of Flutter vs the other options
      • React Native
      • Progressive Web Apps
      • WebView solutions (Ionic, etc.)
      • Truly native coding (Swift, Objective-C, Java, Kotlin)
  • Characteristics of Flutter - Big picture things to keep in mind to successfully code in Flutter
    • This ain't the web!
    • Imperative UI
    • You're writing using Dart
    • Everything is a widget (Define widgets and explain the big win of widgets)
    • Widgets composition
      • You have to watch state

    2. How do I develop in Flutter?

    • Chapter synopsis: Flutter has a unique set of tools but it isn't always straightforward what each tool does and how to use it. This chapter guides the reader through the process of write-debug-test-run.
    • Installing Flutter tooling - A very brief and high-level coverage of where to get the tools. It should be brief because the details are likely to change regularly.
    • Overview of each tool
      • The emulators
        • iOS simulator through XCode
        • Android emulator through Android Studio
      • The IDE - Visual Studio Code
        • Alternatives: Android Studio, Atom, jBoss, etc.
      • The Flutter CLI
    • How to check and repair your toolchain through Flutter doctor
    • How to scaffold a new app
    • How to run in an emulator
    • When errors occur
    • How to debug
      • print() statement
      • Flutter inspector or DartCode VS Code plugin
    • Watch mode

    Section: Foundational Flutter

    3. Everything is widgets

    • Chapter Synopsis: Widgets are super-important to Flutter since they're the building blocks of every Flutter app. We show why and provide the motivation and basic tools to create widgets.
      • Reminder about widgets
    • Composition
      • Define composition
      • Provide real-world examples
      • Why it is such a win
    • Comparison with Web Components, React, Angular, and Vue
    • The categories of Flutter UI widgets
        • For each category, we'll explain why we'd use them, what they have in common, and give one or two examples of the most fundamental and needed widgets in each category.
      • Value Widgets
        • Example: Text widget
      • Style Widgets
        • Example: Center widget
      • Composition Widgets
      • Example: Container widget
    • Navigation Widgets
      • Example: AppBar widget
  • Bringing the chapter together: Composing them in a custom widget
  • Stateful vs. Stateless widgets
    • What is state?
    • How to create a custom stateless widget (Note: creating a stateful widget is complex so we're saving it for the State chapter).

    4. Value Widgets

    • Chapter Synopsis: Deep

      Author: Rap Payne
      Publisher: Apress
      Published: 12/19/2019
      Pages: 309
      Binding Type: Paperback
      Weight: 1.04lbs
      Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.70d
      ISBN13: 9781484251805
      ISBN10: 1484251806
      BISAC Categories:
      - Computers | Programming | Mobile Devices
      - Computers | Programming | Macintosh
      - Computers | Hardware | Personal Computers | PCs

      About the Author

      Rap Payne has focused on mobile development since he started Agile Gadgets, a mobile app development company in 2003. He is a consultant, trainer, and entrepreneur who has written apps, mentored developers, and taught software development classes for Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, Walmart, Coca-Cola, Wells Fargo, Honda, CVS, GE, Chase, HP, Lockheed, Exxon-Mobil, Lowe's, Nike, J.C. Penney, USAA, Walgreen's, and government agencies like the US Air Force, Navy, Army, NASA, Britain's GCHQ, Canada's postal service, and several provincial governments, to name a few.

      As a professional mentor and trainer, Rap has developed a talent for communicating highly complex ideas in easy-to-understand ways. And as a real-world developer, he understands the need to teach these topics using practical and realistic examples and exercises.