Table of Contents
1. Getting Started
Download latest Flutter
Who should read this book?
Flutter for Windows
Flutter for macOS and Linux
Relation between Flutter and Dart
Functions and Objects
Building the mobile application from scratch
2. Flutter and Dart Architecture: Understanding Class and Object
A Short Introduction to Class and Objects
How two objects interact
More about classes and objects
How Flutter and Dart work together
Positional and Named argument
3. Dart Language Basic and its implementation in Flutter
Variables Store References
Built-in Types in Dart
Suppose, you donβt like Variables
More about built-in types
Understanding Strings
To be True or to be False
Introduction to Collections: Arrays are Lists in Dart
Get, Set and Go
Operators are Useful
Equality and relational operators
Type test operators
Assignment operators
Summary of this Part
Implementing Dart concepts to Flutter
4. Digging Deep into Dart to learn Flutter Logic
Control the flow of your code
If and Else
Conditional Expression
Looking at Looping
While and Do-While
Understanding the Looping Patterns
For Loop Labels
Continue with For Loop
Decision making with Switch and case
Digging Deep into Object-Oriented Programming
More about Constructors
How to implement Classes
More on Functions or Methods
Lexical Scope in Function
A few words about Getter and Setter
More than one Constructor
Changing the UI of the Flutter projects
What are constraints in flutter
What are BoxConstraints in Flutter
What is widget in Flutter
What is element in Flutter
5. How to build Flutter UI using Widgets
Common Widgets in Flutter
Powerful Basic Widgets
Anonymous Functions: Lambda, Higher Order Functions, and Lexical Closures
Exploring Higher-Order Functions
Inheritance and Mixins in Dart
Mixins: Adding more Features to a Class
6. Layouts in Flutter, Tips and Tricks
Customize child Widgets
Layout mechanism of Flutter
Library of layout widgets
Abstract Class and Methods
Advantage of Interfaces
Static Variables and Methods
The `Closure' is a Special Function
Data Structures and Collections
Lists: Fixed Length and Growable
Set: An Unordered Collections of Unique Items
Maps: the Key, Value Pair
Queue is Open-Ended
Callable Classes
Exception Handling
Dart Packages and Libraries
7. Introduction to State Management and Form Validation in Flutter and Dart
State is mutable
Life cycle of State
Role of Controller in TextField Widget
How List and Map used in StateFul DropdownButton Widget
How to Valiadate a Form using State Management
8. Provider: A recommended approach to manage State and Model-View-Controller Pattern
Different approaches to state management
A Step by Step guide to use Provider
Riverpod, another state management package, Riverpod migration, WidgetRef ref, and What is new in Riverpod
Why we need the latest Flutter and Dart SDK?
Is Riverpod better than Provider?
What is a WidgetRef?
Model class with StateNotifierProvider in new Riverpod
Model-View-Controller Patterns
9. Everything about Flutter Navigation and Route
Why do you use onGenerateRoute in flutter?
How do you use onGenerateRoute in Flutter?
How to use a dynamic initial route?
What is Flutter Navigation and how does Flutter Navigator work?
How do you pass data from one class to another in flutter?
What is enum in Dart flutter? How to use enum in Flutter?
How do you change the theme on Flutter?
How do you name a route in Flutter?
How do you pass data from one screen to another in flutter?
How do you make a Flutter app from scratch?
10. More on Flutter UI, List, Map, and Provider Best Practices
How do you use decoration in a container in Flutter?
What is a RichText in flutter?
Stateful vs Stateless Flutter
What is GridTile Flutter? How do you use grid tiles in Flutter?
What is change notifier provider in Flutter?
How do you change the font on flutter?
How do I store persistent data in Flutter?
What is data model in Flutter?
How do you pass data between screens in flutter?
How do you pass data with provider in Flutter?
What is provider pattern Flutter?
How do you use ChangeNotifierProvider in Flutter?
What is ChangeNotifierProvider value?
What is navigator and route in Flutter?
How do you pass arguments in Navigator pushNamed?
11. Googleβs Flutter 2.5 and Dart 2.14, Whatβs New
What is MaterialBanner?
How do you Map a dart list in Flutter 2.5?
How to start with an app template in Flutter 2.5
The latest version of Flutter comes with many new features
How do you do localization in flutter 2.5?
How do you pass data to a widget in flutter 2.5?
How to Pass and Receive data in Flutter 2.5
12. Understanding Material Design in Flutter
What is Material Design in flutter?
AppBar Flutter: How Do I use AppBar?
How do I use BottomNavigationBar in flutter?
What is a drawer in flutter?
What is Material App in Flutter?
What is a theme in Flutter?
What is scaffold in Flutter?
How do you make a TabBar in flutter?
How do I create a DropdownButton in flutter?
What is Material State in Flutter?
How do I add a checkbox in flutter?
How do I use a checkbox widget in flutter?
What is elevated Button in flutter?
What is text button in Flutter?
What is outlined button in flutter?
How do you use the icon button flutter?
How do you use a TextField in Flutter?
How do you make a flutter card?
What is the grid view in Flutter?
What is GridView count in flutter?
What is GridView.extent in Flutter?
How do you use chip in flutter?
13. Slivers and Scrolling Widgets
What is SliverAppBar in flutter?
How do I make my collapsing toolbar flutter?
What is SliverGrid in flutter?
SliverPersistentHeader Flutter, a sliver whose size varies
How do you use slivers flutter?
How to use CustomScrollView in Flutter?
How to use NestedScrollView in flutter?
How to use PageView in Flutter
What is PageView builder in flutter?
What is PageView custom in flutter?
How to use DraggableScrollableSheet
Flutter Scrollbar Interactive
How to use Scrollbar in flutter
How to use ReorderableListView
How to rearrange list in flutter
What is Scrollable in flutter
What is ListView in flutter
What is ListView builder in flutter
What is ListView separated
What is ListView custom
What is single child ScrollView in flutter
14. A Close Encounter with Provider package and State Management
What is provider in Flutter?
What is Consumer Flutter?
What is Flutter Selector?
How to use Selector Flutter
What is Flutter Selector child
15. User Interface, Style, Theme and App Design
What are constraints in flutter
What are BoxConstraints in Flutter
What is widget in Flutter
What is element in Flutter
What is Align in Flutter
How to use aspect ratio widget
What is Baseline in Flutter
How to use theme in Flutter
How to use theme with Provider on flutter
16. What Next?