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Frank ZammettiPractical Flutterhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4972-7_4

4. Say Hello to My Little Friend: Flutter, Part II

Frank Zammetti1 
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Pottstown, PA, USA
 

In the last chapter, you began your exploration of the widgets Flutter ships with. Now, in this chapter, we’ll play the back nine, to use some golf lingo (I’m not a golfer – I consider golf a nice walk interrupted by a game – but it’s a good phrase none the less) and continue looking at the widgets, followed by a brief dive into some APIs that Flutter provides.

Styling Widgets

Flutter has a rich system for styling widgets in various ways, and being widget-oriented at its core, you do this, largely at least, through widgets that are specifically designed to style other ...

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