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10. Your Flutter App Can Work with Files

Rap Payne1 
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Dallas, TX, USA
 

At this point in our journey, you’ve learned how to create a Flutter app and precisely control how it looks and lays out in any orientation and on any device. That’s pretty cool! You know how to have it maintain data with Form fields. But how do we get it to save that data? How do we get it to read that data in the first place?

Your app’s data can only come from two places: from within the device itself or by exchanging data with an external server. We’ll deal with external servers in the next chapter. In this chapter, let’s learn to read and write data from on-device storage ...

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