Thomas Bailey - Flutter for Beginners: An introductory guide to building cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter 2.5 and Dart

An introductory guide to building cross-platform mobile applications with Flutter 2.5 and Dart

Thomas Bailey

Alessandro Biessek

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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To my long-suffering wife, Laura Bailey, who allows me to embark on all manner of crazy projects, and my two lovely (most of the time) children, Lottie and Bobby, who keep life exciting and fresh. Love you all so much!

Tom Bailey

I have known and worked with Tom for more than 10 years. We met at an antenatal class as we both embarked on our journey into parenthood and have been close friends ever since.

Together we founded our education apps company, and from the very start we decided to go all-in on Flutter for all our apps. At the time Flutter was in beta, and I must admit I questioned Tom's decision to put all our eggs into such a new and untested basket.

Three years later and we have created a suite of high-quality education apps across Android, iOS, and, to some extent, the web, allowing us to keep development costs incredibly low relative to our competitors while creating apps that are very high quality.

In Flutter for Beginners Second Edition, Tom shares his learning from those 3 years of development. This book is written from the point of view of someone who has been there, all the way from justifying the use of the framework to the wider business team and learning the basics of the framework, through implementing the user experience defined by our designers, to testing and ultimately releasing to the iOS App Store and Google Play Store.

Why not join Tom and build some epic Flutter apps using this awesome framework?

Trevor Wills

Managing Director, Life Ninja

Thomas Bailey has an extensive background in tech, working for companies and high-profile firms as a senior developer, solutions architect, and IT director. His education technology company uses Flutter as the sole technology powering their education apps, and he has enjoyed watching Flutter move from its initial beta release to the fully fledged and highly popular framework we see today. He loves to talk tech over a hot chocolate with anyone who will listen and is constantly exploring the cutting edge of tech and how it will shape our industry in the future.

I want to thank the people who have been close to me and supported me, especially my wife, Laura, and my colleagues, who have been happy to allow me time to focus on the book when I should have been cutting code.

Alessandro Biessek was born in the beautiful city of Chapec, in the state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, in 1993. He is currently working on mobile application development for Android and iOS in his hometown. He has more than 9 years of experience in development, from desktop development with Delphi to backend development with PHP, Node.js, and Golang; mobile development with Apache Flex; and Java/Kotlin. Most of his time is devoted to the development of Android apps. Always interested in new technologies, he has been following the Flutter framework for a long time, watching with interest its growth and adoption in recent months.

Adby Santos has a degree in IT from UFERSA; he is a co-organizer of and contributor to Flutterando, one of the world biggest communities about Flutter; he works at FTeam, a mobile apps specialist organization, as a Flutter development specialist. He is also a speaker and consultant; he has spoken and moderated at events like the Flutter Global Summit by Geekle. He also writes weekly about his professional and personal experiences on his LinkedIn.

I would like to thank Packt Publishing for the opportunity to review. My special regards to Mr. Manthan Patel for the invite. I hope we could contribute together in later opportunities.