Flutter Apprentice

Build your Apps With Flutter!

Flutter is an exciting development toolkit that lets you build apps for iOS, Android and even web and desktop, all from a single codebase.

It uses a declarative approach to UI development. You can “hot reload” code while developing, and apps will perform at native speed thanks to its custom rendering engine.

With Flutter and Flutter Apprentice, you can achieve the dream of building fast applications, faster.

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers who are new to Flutter, and also developers that already have some experience with building apps for the iOS and Android platforms, or web apps.

Topics Covered in Flutter Apprentice

• Widgets: Use Flutter widgets to build modern mobile user interfaces.
• Navigation: Navigate between multiple screens within a Flutter app, including using deep links.
• Networking and Persistence: Fetch data from the network, parse the JSON response and cache data locally in a SQLite database.
• State Management: Explore the all-important idea of state management in Flutter and learn about various state management techniques and tools.
• Streams: Learn about Dart streams and how to use them in Flutter apps.
• Testing: Learn to test your code to improve its quality and prevent regressions.
• Deployment: Learn to prepare and deploy your app to mobile app stores.
• Firebase: Learn how to leverage Firebase Cloud Firestore to store data remotely.

One thing you can count on: After reading this book, you’ll be prepared to create and deploy full-featured mobile apps to both the iOS App Store and the Google Play Store, without having to write two separate apps.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Chapter 2: Hello, Flutter

Chapter 3: Basic Widgets

Chapter 4: Understanding Widgets

Chapter 5: Scrollable Widgets

Chapter 6: Advanced Scrollable Widgets

Chapter 7: Interactive Widgets

Chapter 8: Routes & Navigation

Chapter 9: Deep Links & Web URLs

Chapter 10: Handling Shared Preferences

Chapter 11: Serialization With JSON

Chapter 12: Networking in Flutter

Chapter 13: Managing State

Chapter 14: Working With Streams

Chapter 15: Saving Data Locally

Chapter 16: Firebase Cloud Firestore

Chapter 17: Introduction to Testing

Chapter 18: Widget Testing

Chapter 19: Platform-Specific App Assets

Chapter 20: Build & Release an Android App

Chapter 21: Build & Release an iOS App

About the Authors

Alejandro Ulate Fallas is an author of this book. He is a Mobile Developer based in Costa Rica and has been developing apps for over 6 years. He likes to learn new things and share it with others. In his spare time he enjoys handy, watching sports and spending time with his family.

Kevin David Moore is an author of this book. He is a Google Developer Expert in Flutter and has been developing Android apps for over 13 years and Flutter apps for over 3 years. He’s written several articles, books and videos at Kodeco. He is a cat lover with three cats and he is working towards his black belt in taekwondo.

Vincent Ngo is an author of this book. A software developer by day at a growing startup, and an iOS/Flutter enthusiast by night, he believes that sharing knowledge is the best way to learn and grow as a techie. Vincent starts every morning with a Cà phê sữa đá (Vietnamese coffee) to fuel his day. He enjoys playing golf, meditating, and watching animated movies. You can find him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vincentngo2.

Stef Patterson is an author and tech editor for this book. Stef is passionate about helping others learn, which includes mentoring, writing and editing documentation, data wrangling and coding by example. Throughout most of her career, she has worked as a senior SQL developer and analyst. In 2013, she started creating iOS apps using kodeco.com books and articles. Now, thanks to Flutter, she is creating natively compiled cross-platform apps. Stef loves movies, trivia nights, Sci-Fi and spending time with her husband, daughter and their dogs. You can find her on Mastodon at https:// fluttercommunity.social/@GeekMeSpeakStef and Twitter at https://twitter.com/GeekMeSpeakStef.