Table of Contents

An Introduction to Flutter

An Introduction to Dart

Flutter versus Other Frameworks

Dart Classes and Constructs

Widgets – Building Layouts in Flutter

Handling User Input and Gestures

Routing – Navigating between Screens

Plugins – What Are They and How Do I Use Them?

Popular Third-Party Plugins

Using Widget Manipulations and Animations

Testing and Debugging

Releasing Your App to the World

About the Author

Thomas Bailey has an extensive background in tech, working for companies and high profile firms as a senior developer, solutions architect and IT director. His education technology company uses Flutter solely as the technology powering their education apps, and he has enjoyed watching Flutter move its initial beta release to a fully fledged and highly popular framework we see today. Alessandro Biessek was born in the beautiful city of Chapecó, in the state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, in 1993. He is currently working on mobile application development for Android and iOS in his hometown. He has more than 9 years of experience in development, from desktop development with Delphi to backend with PHP, Node.js, Golang, mobile development with Apache Flex, and Java/Kotlin. Most of his time is devoted to the development of Android apps. Always interested in new technologies, he has been following the Flutter framework for a long time, shown through its growth and adoption in recent months.