Flutter Essential Training: Build for Multiple Platforms

Learn everything you need to get started with Dart and Flutter.

Introduction

• Building for multiple platforms
• What you should know
• Using the GitHub exercise files

1. Essential Dart Concepts for Flutter

• Entry point to a Dart application
• Overview of data types: Numbers and strings
• Overview of data types: Bool, lists, and maps
• Difference between var and dynamic
• Functions in Dart
• Overview of classes and objects: Part 1
• Overview of classes and objects: Part 2

2. Introduction to Flutter

• Making use of various Flutter resources
• Installing Flutter and setting up Android Studio on Mac
• Installing Flutter and setting up Android Studio on Windows
• Which Flutter version to use?
• Running the Hello World app on mobile, desktop, and web
• Anatomy of a Flutter project
• Understanding the Counter App code
• Challenge: Draw the widget tree
• Solution: Draw the widget tree
• Bonus: Getting to know Android Studio

3. Basic Building Blocks

• Flutter building blocks to know about
• Building basic widgets for the login screen
• Building basic widgets for the chat screen
• Placements and alignments
• Structure: Flexible and expanded
• Creating your own custom widget
• Building dynamic lists
• How to breakdown designs into code?
• Breaking down designs: More examples

4. Interactivity

• What is state?
• Writing your first stateful widget
• Widget variables vs. state variables
• When to use stateless or stateful?
• Lifecycle of a stateful widget
• Stateful hot reload
• Learning about buttons
• Taps and gesture detection
• Getting inputs from the user
• Validating user inputs
• Creating multiline text fields
• Navigating from one screen to another
• Passing data with navigation
• Navigating via named routes
• Replacing routes using Navigator

5. Everything about Pubspec

• Organizing the styles and colors for the login page
• Organizing the styles and colors for the chat page
• Understanding the anatomy of a pubspec.yaml file
• Exploring pub.dev
• Plugins vs. packages
• Adding plugins to your app from pub.dev
• Adding packages from external sources
• Modeling entities in Dart
• Generics in Dart
• JSON: Serialization vs. deserialization
• Reading data from a JSON file
• Improving UI with box constraints
• Calling a parent class method from child class

6. This Is the Future

• Handling async operations in Dart
• Introduction to APIs and exploring Postman.
• Deserialize JSON with the JsonSerializable package
• Integrating a REST API
• FutureBuilder for futures
• Repository pattern
• Grid view in a ModalBottomSheet
• Showing the selected image in ChatInput
• Exception handling
• Creating rounded UI elements

7. Working with Data

• Why you need state management
• Exploring provider way
• Caching data
• Static initializers
• Change notifiers in Flutter
• Creating a dynamic home page
• Making the UI responsive for the web

Conclusion

• Next steps