Appendix: Answers

Chapter 1

  1. The minimum constant frame rate Flutter draws at is 60 frames per second.
  2. The graphics engine used by Flutter is Skia.
  3. Android, iPhone, Mac, Linux, Windows, and the Web can be supported with Flutter.
  4. Skia is an open-source graphics engine that provides graphics APIs for drawing shapes, text, and images.
  5. Dart supports both just-in-time and ahead-of-time compilation. Just-in-time compilation provides great features like stateful hot reload while debugging, and ahead-of-time compilation provides high performances when the game is released.
  6. Stateful hot reload allows you to make a change to your code, reload it, and instantly see the change (it's like painting with code!).
  7. Dart uses fast garbage collection for short ...

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