Beginning App Development with Flutter: Create Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

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3. Everything Is Widgets

Rap Payne¹ 

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Let’s pretend that you are an insanely talented Lego nerd and got offered one of the few coveted jobs as a Lego Master Builder. Congrats! Let’s also say that your first assignment is to build a six-foot-tall Thor made from 26,000 Legos (Figure 3-1).

Figure 3-1

A Lego Thor. The author snapped this picture at a movie theater once

How would you go about doing that? Ponder that for a minute. Go ahead, we’ll wait.

Would you just start grabbing bricks and putting them together? Probably not. Would ...