Flutter Essential Training: Build for Multiple Platforms

Course details

In this course, Pooja Bhaumik covers everything a complete beginner needs to get started using Dart and Flutter. Pooja begins with some basic concepts of Dart that you need to understand before using the Flutter framework. Next, she introduces you to Flutter, including Flutter resources that are available, as well as how to install and set up Flutter, select the best version to use, define the anatomy of a Flutter project, and more. Pooja goes over the basic building blocks of Flutter UI, such as building widgets, aligning and placing elements, building dynamic lists, breaking down design into code, and more. She covers interactivity in depth, then goes into everything you need to know about Pubspec. Pooja explains synchronous and asynchronous functions, Postman, the JsonSerializable package, FutureBuilder, and other useful innovations. After discussing how to work with data, Pooja recommends some next steps and points out how you can learn more from Flutter documentation.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Building for multiple platforms
02 - What you should know
03 - Using the GitHub exercise files

1. Essential Dart Concepts for Flutter

04 - Entry point to a Dart application
05 - Overview of data types - Numbers and strings
06 - Overview of data types - Bool, lists, and maps
07 - Difference between var and dynamic
08 - Functions in Dart
09 - Overview of classes and objects - Part 1
10 - Overview of classes and objects - Part 2

2. Introduction to Flutter

11 - Making use of various Flutter resources
12 - Installing Flutter and setting up Android Studio on Mac
13 - Installing Flutter and setting up Android Studio on Windows
14 - Which Flutter version to use
15 - Running the Hello World app on mobile, desktop, and web
16 - Anatomy of a Flutter project
17 - Understanding the Counter App code
18 - Solution - Draw the widget tree
19 - Bonus - Getting to know Android Studio

3. Basic Building Blocks

20 - Flutter building blocks to know about
21 - Building basic widgets for the login screen
22 - Building basic widgets for the chat screen
23 - Placements and alignments
24 - Structure - Flexible and expanded
25 - Creating your own custom widget
26 - Building dynamic lists
27 - How to breakdown designs into code
28 - Breaking down designs - More examples

4. Interactivity

29 - What is state
30 - Writing your first stateful widget
31 - Widget variables vs. state variables
32 - When to use stateless or stateful
33 - Lifecycle of a stateful widget
34 - Stateful hot reload
35 - Learning about buttons
36 - Taps and gesture detection
37 - Getting inputs from the user
38 - Validating user inputs
39 - Creating multiline text fields
40 - Navigating from one screen to another
41 - Passing data with navigation
42 - Navigating via named routes
43 - Replacing routes using Navigator

5. Everything about Pubspec

44 - Organizing the styles and colors for the login page
45 - Organizing the styles and colors for the chat page
46 - Understanding the anatomy of a pubspec.yaml file
47 - Exploring pub.dev
48 - Plugins vs. packages
49 - Adding plugins to your app from pub.dev
50 - Adding packages from external sources
51 - Modeling entities in Dart
52 - Generics in Dart
53 - JSON - Serialization vs. deserialization
54 - Reading data from a JSON file
55 - Improving UI with box constraints
56 - Calling a parent class method from child class

6. This Is the Future

57 - Handling async operations in Dart
58 - Introduction to APIs and exploring Postman.
59 - Deserialize JSON with the JsonSerializable package
60 - Integrating a REST API
61 - FutureBuilder for futures
62 - Repository pattern
63 - Grid view in a ModalBottomSheet
64 - Showing the selected image in ChatInput
65 - Exception handling
66 - Creating rounded UI elements

7. Working with Data

67 - Why you need state management
68 - Exploring provider way
69 - Caching data
70 - Static initializers
71 - Change notifiers in Flutter
72 - Creating a dynamic home page
73 - Making the UI responsive for the web

Conclusion

74 - Next steps