Alessandro Biessek - Flutter for Beginners

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AlessandroBiessek 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 7 years of experience in development, from desktop development with Delphi to backend with PHP, Node.js, 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, shown through its growth and adoption in recent months.

Ugurcan Yildirim is an enthusiast of Android and Flutter mobile application development frameworks. He graduated as valedictorian with a BSc degree in Computer Science from Bilkent University, Ankara. Since 2015, he has been working as an Android Engineer at Accenture Industry X.0, Istanbul. With Flutter's promising uptrend that started in 2018, he began to concern himself with the peculiarities of Flutter and experiment with them. Since then, he has contributed to the open source community of Flutter by writing articles on Medium (@ugurcany) and giving presentations. His latest contribution is to review this book, which he believes should be consulted and referenced by Flutter developers of any level.

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Flutter for Beginners helps you to enter the Flutter framework world and build awesome mobile applications. I'll take you from an introduction to the Dart language to an in-depth exploration of all the Flutter blocks needed to make a high-level app. Together, we will build a fully featured app. With clear code examples, you will learn how to start a small Flutter project, add some widgets, apply styles and themes, connect with remote services such as Firebase, get user input, add some animations to improve the user experience, and more. In addition, you will learn how to add advanced features, map integrations, work with platform-specific code with native programming languages, and create fantastic UIs with personalized animations. In short, this book will prepare you for the future of mobile development with this amazing framework.