Flutter Recipes: Mobile Development Solutions for iOS and Android

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5. Layout Widgets

Fu Cheng¹ 

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Sandringham, Auckland, New Zealand

 

Layout is always a challenging task when building user interface. When it comes to mobile apps, layout is much more complicated considering the large number of different screen resolutions for devices. This chapter covers recipes related to layout in Flutter.

5.1 Understanding Layout in Flutter

Problem

You want to know how layout works in Flutter.

Solution

Layout in Flutter is implemented by a set of widgets. These layout widgets wrap other widgets to apply different layout constraints.

Discussion

For mobile apps, the layout must be responsive to work with different screen resolutions without writing a lot ...