Napoli - Beginning Flutter: A Hands on Guide to App Development

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 3
3. Chapter 5
4. Chapter 9
5. Chapter 11
6. Chapter 12
7. Chapter 13
8. Chapter 14
9. Chapter 15

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 5
4. Chapter 6
5. Chapter 7
6. Chapter 8
7. Chapter 9
8. Chapter 10
9. Chapter 11
10. Chapter 12
11. Chapter 13
12. Chapter 14
13. Chapter 15
14. Chapter 16

Marco L. Napoli

Beginning Flutter: A Hands On Guide To App Development

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To God; my wife Carla; my children, Michael, Timothy, and Joseph; and you, the reader.

Marco L. Napoliis the CEO of Pixolini, Inc., and an experienced mobile, web, and desktop app developer. He has a strong proven record in developing visually elegant and simpletouse systems. He wrote his first native iOS app in 2008. His work and published apps can be seen at www.pixolini.com.

He has loved computers from an early age. His dad noticed and bought him a PC, and he has been developing software since. He attended the University of Miami for an architecture degree, but he had already started his own business, and after four years he decided architecture was not for him. He developed systems for a diverse mix of industries including banking, healthcare, real estate, education, trucking, entertainment, and horizontal markets. Later, a leading banking software company acquired his MLN Enterprises, Inc., company. The main products were mortgage banking, processing, and marketing software.

Next, he started consulting and later created IdeaBlocks, Inc., with the purpose of software development consulting. He developed for a client that sold hospitality software for mobile, desktop, and web platforms. The main product focus was on hotel sales, catering, webspace, guest service, and maintenance software. The products synced via cloud servers using Microsoft SQL Server with encryption applied to sensitive data. His client's customers included Hyatt Place and Summerfield, Hilton Hotel, Holiday Inn, Hampton Inn, Marriott, Best Western, Radisson Hotel, Sheraton Hotels, Howard Johnson, Embassy Suites, and many more. Once his contract was done, he closed IdeaBlocks.

Today, his focus is running Pixolini. He develops mobile, desktop, and web apps for iOS, Mac, Android, Windows, and the Web. He also teaches a course at Udemy using a web app that he developed for analyzing real estate investment calculations. He has developed and published more than 10 apps in each respective store.

He was interviewed by Hillel Coren for the It's All Widgets Flutter Podcast on November 27, 2018, and the episode can be found at https://itsallwidgets.com/podcast/episodes/1/marco-napoli.

I cannot code without espresso, cappuccino, or coffee, and I love martial arts.

Marco is married to Carla, and they have three amazing children.

Zeeshan Chawdhary is an avid technologist, with 14 years of experience in the industry. Having started his career with mobile development with J2ME, he soon ventured into web development, creating robust and scalable web applications. As a chief technology officer, he has led teams to build web and mobile apps for companies such as Nokia, Motorola, Mercedes, GM, American Airlines, and Marriott. He is currently director of development on an international team, serving clients with technologies like Magento, WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel, NodeJS, Google Puppeteer, ExpressJS, ReactJS, and .NET. He has also authored books on iOS, Windows Phone, and iBooks.

Zeeshan is based in Mumbai, India. He can be reached at .