The Complete Guide to Flutter Development
So What is Flutter?
Flutter is a cross-platform mobile app development framework created by Google. It is used to develop applications for iOS and Android. Flutter uses Dart, a programming language that was developed by Google in 2011.
Google launched the beta version of the Flutter framework on February 27th, 2018 at Mobile World Congress. Flutter is designed to be fast and flexible, with a “hot reload” feature that updates the app on screen within seconds as developers code changes. The goal of this tool is to help developers build high quality apps for both iOS and Android apps faster than before.
The Flutter SDK includes everything needed to create an app from scratch, including tools for creating user interfaces, laying out those interfaces on different screens and handling touch events.
Why to Use Flutter?
Flutter is a library for creating rich, high-performance applications.
Flutter is one of the most popular libraries in the world, powering 2.7 million applications as of January 2019. This makes it one of the most popular frameworks and libraries in the world.
So why should you use Flutter? Flutter’s main advantage is that it allows developers to create beautiful and functional GUI for their apps. It also has a lot of libraries which are compatible with both iOS and Android platforms, enabling faster development cycles for designers and developers alike.
How To Start ?
1- Learn the basics of Dart Programming Language
Dart is an object-oriented language, which means you create objects with properties and methods. Dart is a compiled language, which means that you can use it to create standalone applications.
it’s easy to learn and well documented
2- Learn Flutter Basic Widgets
Flutter contain many widgets that helps you to create beautiful UI , the most important widgets you should learn in the beginning are :
Text Widget
Row and Column Widgets
Container and SizedBox Widgets
Stack Widget
Dynamic Widgets like ListView and GridView
3- State Management concepts
State Full Widgets
State Less Widgets
and State Management packages like Provider , Getx , Bloc , MobX
4- Database Integration
Learn how to use local databases like SQFLite and Hive to store and manage data locally
5- Consuming API’s
learn how to consume API’s and how to manage HTTP requests using packages like http or Dio
