Introduction to Flutter

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Course Number: FLTR-100
Duration: 2 days (13 hours)
Format: Live, hands-on

Flutter Training Overview

Accelebrate’s Introduction to Flutter training teaches the hands-on programming skills you need to successfully build your first Flutter applications. Attendees learn how to use the Dart programming language, debug Flutter, create custom widgets, layout a screen, respond to gestures, and more.

Location and Pricing

Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.

Objectives

  • Write a cross-platform app that will run on any of the 5 billion iOS/Android cell phones in the world, as well as in browser and desktop environments
  • Develop and debug Flutter apps
  • Leverage the elegance of the Dart programming language in Flutter apps
  • Apply themes and styles
  • Write custom widgets
  • Respond to gestures like taps, swipes, and pinches

Prerequisites

Experience in another object-oriented programming language like Java, C#, or C++.

Outline

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Introduction
Hello Flutter
  • What is Flutter?
  • Why Flutter?
  • The other options
  • Native solutions
Dart Language Overview
  • What is Dart?
  • Expected features – Dart Cheatsheet
  • Data types, Arrays/lists
  • Classes
  • Conditionals and loops
  • Unexpected things about Dart
  • Type inference
  • final and const
  • String interpolation with $
  • Spread operator
  • Map<foo, bar>
  • Functions are objects
  • Big arrow/Fat arrow
  • Named function parameters
  • Omitting “new” and “this.”
  • Class constructor parameter shorthand
  • Private class members
  • Mixins
  • The cascade operator (..)
  • No overloading
  • Named constructors
Developing in Flutter
  • The Flutter toolchain
  • The Flutter SDK
  • IDEs
  • IDE DevTools
  • Emulators
  • Keeping the tools up to date
  • The Flutter development process
  • Scaffolding the app and files
  • Running your app
Everything Is Widgets
  • UI as code
  • Built-in Flutter widgets
  • Value widgets
  • Layout widgets
  • Navigation widgets
  • Other widgets
  • How to create stateless widgets
  • Widgets have keys
  • Passing a value into your widget
  • Stateless and Stateful widgets
  • So which one should I create?
Value Widgets
  • The Text widget
  • The Icon widget
  • The Image widget
  • Embedded images
  • Network images
  • Sizing an image
  • Input widgets
  • Text fields
  • Putting the form widgets together
  • Form widget
  • FormField widget
  • One big Form example
Responding to Gestures
  • Meet the button family
  • RaisedButton
  • FlatButton and IconButton
  • FloatingActionButton
  • CupertinoButton
  • Dismissible
  • Custom gestures for your custom widgets
    • Reacting to a long press
    • Pinching to add a new item
    • Swiping left or right
  • The gesture arena
Conclusion

Training Materials

All Flutter training attendees receive comprehensive courseware.

Software Requirements

  • Google Chrome
  • Other modern browsers as desired
  • IDE/development environment of your choice
  • Other free software and lab files that Accelebrate would specify


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