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Flutter in Action
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Flutter in Action

by Eric Windmill
January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
12h 45m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 3. Breaking into Flutter

This chapter covers

  • Dissecting Flutter basics via the Increment app
  • Flutter widget classes
  • BuildContext, the widget tree, and the element tree
  • Flutter development environment and tips

I imagine, because you’re reading this, that you’re at least intrigued by Flutter. By the end of this chapter, I hope you’ll be excited about it. In this chapter, I’ll walk you through the ins and outs of Flutter. I’ll show you how to use it and how it works under the hood. The goal of this chapter is to build a foundation. This is the plan for doing so:

  1. Take an in-depth look at the counter app, which is the app that’s generated when you start a new Flutter project with the CLI.
  2. Make the counter app more robust by adding ...
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