Flutter for Beginners

The Transform widget

The Transform widget is one of the best examples of the Flutter framework's power and consistency. It's a single-purpose widget that simply applies a graphic transformation to its child and nothing more. Having widgets focused on one single purpose is fundamental to a better layout structure, and Flutter does it very well.

The Transform widget, as its name suggests, does a single task: it transforms its underlying child. Although its task is very complex, it abstracts most part of this complexity to the developer. Let's have a look at its constructor:

const Transform({    Key key,    @required Matrix4 transform,    Offset origin,    AlignmentGeometry alignment,    bool transformHitTests: true,    Widget child})

As you can see, besides ...