Flutter For Dummies

Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
	How to Use This Book
	Conventions Used in This Book
	What You Don’t Have to Read
	Foolish Assumptions
	How This Book Is Organized
		Part 1, “Getting Ready”
		Part 2, “Flutter: A Burd’s-Eye View”
		Part 3, “Details, Details”
		Part 4, “The Part of Tens”
		More on the web!
	Icons Used in This Book
	Beyond the Book
	Where to Go from Here
Part 1 Getting Ready
	Chapter 1 What Is Flutter?
		Hardware and Software (Things You May Already Know)
		Where Does Flutter Fit In?
			Cross-platform development
			A quick-and-easy development cycle
			A great way to think about app development
		Enough New Terminology! What’s Next?
	Chapter 2 Setting Up Your Computer for Mobile App Development
		The Stuff You Need
		What to Do
			Getting and installing the stuff
			For Mac users only
			Configuring Android Studio
			Running your first app
		Dealing with the Devil’s Details
			On installing Android Studio
			On launching Android Studio for the first time
			On installing Android Studio’s Flutter plugin
			On adding virtual devices
			On installing Flutter
		Divisiveness Among Devices
			Running apps on an Android device
			Testing apps on a physical device
		Using Android Studio
			Starting up
			The main window
		Running This Book’s Sample Programs
			Enjoying reruns
			If you’re finicky . . .
		Were These Setup Steps Fun or What?
Part 2 Flutter: A Burd’s-Eye View
	Chapter 3 “Hello” from Flutter
		First Things First
			What’s it all about?
			A constructor’s parameters
			A note about punctuation
			Don’t relent — simply indent
		Classes, Objects, and Widgets
			A brief treatise on “within-ness”
			The documentation is your friend
		Making Things Look Nicer
			Creating a scaffold
			Adding visual tweaks
			Dart’s enum feature
			Hello from sunny California!
			Adding another widget
			Centering the text (Part 1)
			Centering the text (Part 2)
			Displaying an image
		Hey, Wait a Minute . . .
	Chapter 4 Hello Again
		Creating and Using a Function
			The function declaration
			A function call
			Parameters and the return value
		Programming in Dart: The Small Stuff
			Statements and declarations
			Dart’s typing feature
			Literals, variables, and expressions
			Two for the price of one
			Dart’s var keyword
			Built-in types
			Types that aren’t built-in
			Using import declarations
		Variations on a Theme from Die Flutter Mouse
			Type names in function declarations
			Naming your parameters
			What about the build function?
		More Fun to Come!
	Chapter 5 Making Things Happen
		Let’s All Press a Floating Action Button
			Stateless widgets and stateful widgets
			Widgets have methods
			Pay no attention to the framework behind the curtain
		Enhancing Your App
			More parameters, please
			The override annotation
			What does  mean?
			Anonymous functions
			What belongs where
			Names that start with an underscore
		Whew!
	Chapter 6 Laying Things Out
		The Big Picture
			Creating bite-size pieces of code
			Creating a parameter list
			Living color
			Adding padding
			Your humble servant, the Column widget
			The SizedBox widget
			Your friend, the Container widget
		Nesting Rows and Columns
		More Levels of Nesting
		Using the Expanded Widget
			Expanded versus unexpanded
			Expanded widget saves the day
			Flexing some muscles
		How Big Is My Device?
Part 3 Details, Details
	Chapter 7 Interacting with the User
		A Simple Switch
			Dart’s const keyword
			Compatible or NOT?
		Wait For It!
		How Much Do You Love Flutter?
		Dealing with Text Fields
			Callouts 1 and 2
			Callout 3
			Callout 4
			Callout 5
		Creating Radio Buttons
			Creating an enum
			Building the radio group
			Displaying the user’s choice
		Creating a Dropdown Button
			Building the dropdown button
			The little Reset button
			Making a Map
		Onward and Upward
	Chapter 8 Navigation, Lists, and Other Goodies
		Extending a Dart Class
		From One Page to Another
			An icon on a button
			Pushing and popping
		Passing Data from Source to Destination
		Passing Data Back to the Source
			Dart’s async and await keywords
			Taking control of the app bar’s Back button
		Passing Data in Both Directions
		Creating Named Routes
		Creating a List
			The ListView widget
			Creating list items one-by-one
			Another new Dart language feature
		Fetching Data from the Internet
			Using a public API
			Sending a URL to a server
			Making sense of a JSON response
		What’s Next?
	Chapter 9 Moving Right Along . . .
		Setting the Stage for Flutter Animation
		Moving Along a Straight Line
		Bouncing Around
		Animating Size and Color Changes
		Moving Along a Curve
		Dragging Things Around
		Where To Go From Here
Part 4 The Part of Tens
	Chapter 10 Ten Ways to Avoid Mistakes
		Put Capital Letters Where They Belong
		Use Parentheses When (and Only When) They’re Appropriate
		Limit Access to Variables
		Call setState
		Make Adjustments for Indices Starting at Zero
		Use the Expanded Widget
		Add itemCount to Your ListView.builder
		Add Imports When They’re Required
		Declare Assets and Dependencies in pubspec.yaml
		Indent Your Code According to Dart Language Guidelines
	Chapter 11 Ten Ways to Enhance Your App Development Career
		Practice! Practice!
		Critique Your Own Code
		Have Others Review Your Code
		Find Out Which Technologies Your Nearby Companies Use
		Attend User Group Meetings
		Ask Questions
		Ask Yourself Whether You Truly Understand
		Learn Things That You May Never Need to Know
		Do What You Love to Do
		Get Plenty of Sleep
	Chapter 12 Ten Chapters about Flutter App Development
		Introduction
		What Is Flutter?
		Setting Up Your Computer for Mobile App Development
		‘Hello’ from Flutter
		Hello Again
		Making Things Happen
		Laying Things Out
		Interacting with the User
		Navigation, Lists, and Other Goodies
		Moving Right Along . . .
Part 5 Appendices
	Appendix A Doris’s Dating App
Index
EULA