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Title: Flutter Apprentice

Author: By Michael Katz, Kevin David Moore & Vincent Ngo
Language: English
No. of pages: 660
Format: PDF, EPUB

Introduction

Welcome to Flutter Apprentice!

Flutter is an incredible user interface (UI) toolkit that lets you build apps for iOS and Android — and even the web and desktop platforms like macOS, Windows and Linux — all from a single codebase.

Flutter has all the benefits of other cross-platform tools, especially because you’re targeting multiple platforms from one codebase. Furthermore, it improves upon most cross-platform tools thanks to a super-fast rendering engine that makes your Flutter apps perform as native apps.

In addition, Flutter features are generally independent of native features, since you use Flutter’s own type of UI elements, called widgets, to create your UI. And Flutter has the ability to work with native code, so you can integrate your Flutter app with native features when you need to.

If you’re coming from a platform like iOS or Android, you’ll find the Flutter development experience refreshing! Thanks to a feature called “hot reload”, you rarely need to rebuild your apps as you develop them. A running app in a simulator or emulator will refresh with code changes automatically as you save your source files!

In this book, you’ll see how to build full-featured Flutter apps, gain experience with a wide range of Flutter widgets and learn how to deploy your apps to mobile app stores.

How to read this book

In the first section of the book, you’ll learn how to set up a Flutter development environment. Once that’s done, you’ll start building your first Flutter app.

The next two sections focus on UI development with Flutter widgets. You’ll see just how impressive Flutter user interfaces can be.

The fourth section switches to building a new app. You’ll use it to learn about using networking and databases with Flutter, as well as the all-important topic of state management.

The fifth section shows you how to incorporate platform-specific assets into your app, then demonstrate how to deploy your apps to the mobile app stores.

The book’s final section focuses on how to interact with Firebase Cloud Firestore. Here’s a breakdown of these five main sections of the book:

Section I: Build Your First Flutter App

The chapters in this section introduce you to Flutter, get you up and running with a Flutter development environment and walk you through building your first Flutter app.

You’ll learn about where Flutter came from and why it exists, understand the structure of Flutter projects and see how to create the UI of a Flutter app.

You’ll also get your first introduction to the key component found in Flutter user interfaces: widgets!

Section II: Everything’s a Widget

In this section, you’ll start to build a full-featured recipe app named Fooderlich. You’ll gain an understanding of the wide range of widgets available in Flutter and put them to use. Then you’ll learn the theory of how widgets work behind the scenes.

Finally, you’ll dive deeper into layout widgets, scrollable widgets and interactive widgets.

Section III: Navigating Between Screens

You’ll continue working on the Fooderlich app in this section, learning about navigating between screens and working with deep links.

Topics you’ll learn include Navigator 2.0 and Flutter Web.

Section IV: Networking, Persistence & State

Most apps interact with the network to retrieve data and then persist that data locally in some form of cache, such as a database. In this section, you’ll build a new app that lets you search the Internet for recipes, bookmark recipes and save their ingredients into a shopping list.

You’ll learn about making network requests, parsing the network JSON response and saving data in a SQLite database. You’ll also get an introduction to using Dart streams.

Finally, this section will dive deeper into the important topic of app state, which determines where and how to refresh data in the UI as a user interacts with your app.

Section V: Deployment

Building an app for your own devices is great; sharing your app with the world is even better!

In this section, you’ll go over the steps and processes to release your apps to the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. You’ll also see how to use platform-specific assets in your apps.

Section VI: Working With Firebase Cloud

Firestore

Synching data with the cloud is a very common feature of any mobile app.

In this section you’ll learn how to leverage the power of Firebase Cloud Firestore to build an instant messaging application.

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Title: Dart Apprentice

Author: By Matt Galloway & Jonathan Sande
Language: English
No. of pages: 284
Format: PDF, EPUB

Introduction Dart Apprentice Ray Wenderlich - Kodeco books 

Dart is a general purpose programming language developed by Google. 

You can use it to develop web, server, desktop and mobile applications for iOS and Android. It’s easy to learn (especially if you read this book) and also has great tooling support.

In many ways Dart is a boring language, and that’s a good thing! It means that Dart is fast and easy to pick up. While Dart does have some unique characteristics, any knowledge you bring in from other object oriented or C-style languages will immediately be applicable. If you come here as a complete beginner to programming, Dart is a good place to start. The concepts that you’ll learn in this book will give you a solid foundation in your coding career.

Don’t let Dart’s mundane syntax fool you. Dart is a modern and rapidly evolving language, and the things it allows you to do are both exciting and even historic in nature. Never before have you been able to create native applications for so many platforms using a single code base.

There’s a good chance you picked up this book because of the Flutter UI framework. However, it was no accident that Flutter chose Dart as its language. The Dart virtual machine allows lightning fast development-time rebuilds, its JavaScript complier allows you to build for the web, and its ahead-of-time compiler creates fast native applications across mobile and desktop platforms and even for servers and embedded devices.

It’s no wonder then that developers across the world have taken notice. The language has been climbing the charts for both fastest growing: https://octoverse.github.com/ #top-languages and most loved https://bit.ly/2Q2ukO0. The wise developer takes note of industry trends and joins them.

So welcome to this book!

Dart Apprentice sample projects

Each chapter comes with supplemental material. In the chapter folder you’ll find a folder called starter that contains a starter project with an empty main function. You can either open this empty project in your editor by going to File ▸ Open in the menu, or just create a new project in the way you’ll learn in Chapter 1.

In addition to the starter project, chapters will also have a final folder, a mini_exercise folder and a challenge folder. You can refer to the final folder if you get lost during the lesson. It will contain the code from that lesson. Likewise, the mini_exercise and challenge folders will contain the answers to the mini-exercises and challenges in every chapter. You’ll learn the most if you don’t copy-and-paste this code but actually type it yourself.

Mini-exercises

You’ll often find mini-exercises in middle of a chapter after learning about some topic. These are optional but generally easy to complete. Like the challenges, they’ll help you solidify what you’re learning.

Challenges

Challenges are an important part of Dart Apprentice. At the end of each chapter, the book will give you one or more tasks to accomplish that make use of the knowledge you learned in the chapter. Completing them will not only help you reenforce that knowledge but will also show that you’ve mastered it.

How to read Dart Apprentice book

Each chapter of this book builds on the ones that precede it, so you’ll find it easiest to understand if you progress through the chapters in order.

Dart Apprentice was written with the beginner in mind. If that’s you, you’ll learn the most by following along and trying each of the code examples, mini-exercises and challenges as you come to them. The way to learn to code is by writing code and experimenting with it. That can’t be emphasized enough.

More advanced readers may want to skim the content of this book in order to get up and running quickly. If that’s you, try the challenges at the end of every chapter. If they’re easy, move on to the next chapter. If they’re not, go back and read the relevant parts of the chapter and check the challenge solutions.

Finally, for all readers, raywenderlich.com is committed to providing quality, up-to- date learning materials. We’d love to have your feedback. What parts of the book gave you one of those aha learning moments? Was some topic confusing? Did you spot a typo or an error? Let us know at forums.raywenderlich.com and look for the particular forum category for this book. We’ll make an effort to take your comments into account in the next update of the book.