Ryan Edge - Cross-Platform UIs with Flutter: Unlock the ability to create native multiplatform UIs using a single code base with Flutter 3

Unlock the ability to create native multiplatform UIs using a single code base with Flutter 3

Ryan Edge

Alberto Miola

BIRMINGHAMMUMBAI

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To my parents, Judy and Stephen Edge, for their constant support and for

exemplifying love, faith, and determination. To my wife Erica, and children,

Amaya, Tristan, and Bryce, for putting up with all of my shenanigans.

Ryan Edge

To my beloved Giorgia, my family, and all my friends.

Alberto Miola

Ryan Edge is an experienced software engineer, with over 10 years of experience as a web and mobile developer. He graduated in computer science from Southern Polytechnic State University. He is currently working for a stealth start-up and part-time as a freelancer, with over 3 years of professional experience in Flutter. He is a Google Developer Expert in Flutter, an active member of the open source community, and a co-organizer of his local Flutter meetup group.

Alberto Miola is an Italian software engineer who graduated in computer science from the University of Padua. Hes currently working with Dart and Flutter, with which he has more than 3 years of professional experience, and also is a Dart and Flutter GDE. He attends online conferences, writes technical articles about Flutter, and is also the author of the Flutter Complete Reference book series.

Amit Bhave is an experienced full stack developer, having worked on various languages and frameworks such as Flutter, Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Micronaut, and so on. He currently works as a senior engineer at Getir, a Turkish delivery services company. Previously, he has also worked at ThoughtWorks.

Ivan Renduli is an experienced software developer and architect with more than 20 years in the software industry. He started programming in the fifth grade and is still enjoying working with and exploring new and progressive technology. He is currently working for his own consulting and development company, Butterfly Design (Croatia).

He fell in love with Flutter at first sight. He considers himself a passionate Flutter enthusiast. He has led and developed greenfield Flutter projects for clients in Croatia. Here are a couple that he is most proud of:

• Mobility One, Mobility One project, Croatia
• Dream Agency, Kali Sara App project, Croatia

He wants to pass on his full regards to his colleagues and associates:

• Alperen Yalcin (Turkey, alper50)
• Carlos Eduardo De Oliveira (Brazil, github-carlos)
• David Machara (Botswana, SidneyMachara)

Also, he wants to pass on his regards to the Flutter Croatia Community:

• Marko Filipovi (Croatia, markfili)
• Sandro Lovniki (Croatia, slovnicki)

Flutter is a UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded devices from a single code base. With Flutter, you can write your code once and run it anywhere using a single code base to target multiple platforms. This book is a comprehensive, project-based guide for new and emerging Flutter developers that will help empower you to build bulletproof applications.

Once youve picked up the book, youll quickly realize what sets Flutter apart from its competition and establish some of the fundamentals of the toolkit. As you work on various project applications, youll understand just how easy Flutter is to use for building stunning user interfaces. The book covers navigation strategies, state management, advanced animation handling, and the two main UI design styles: Material and Cupertino. Itll help you extend your knowledge with good code practices, UI testing strategies, and CI setup to constantly keep your repositorys quality at the highest level possible.