Flutter & Dart App development

Introduction to Development with Flutter

• Learn to set up a new Flutter project using Android Studio.
• Understand the Widget tree and learn to use pre-made Flutter Widgets for user interface design.
• Learn to incorporate Image and Text Widgets to create simplemuser interfaces.
• Learn to incorporate App Icons for iOS and Android.
• Learn how to add and load image assets to Flutter projects.
• Run Flutter apps on iOS Simulator, Android Emulator and physical devices

Creating UI with flutter

• Use Hot Reload and Hot Restart to quickly refresh the app UI and understand when to use each.
• Learning to use the Pubspec.yaml file to incorporate dependencies, custom assets and fonts.
• An introduction to the Widget build() method.
• Learning to use layout widgets such as Columns, Rows, Containers and Cards.
• Incorporating Material icons using the Icons class.

Building Apps with State

• Understand the difference between Stateful and Stateless Widgets and when they should each be used.
• Understand how callbacks can be used detect user interaction in button widgets.
• Understand the declarative style of UI programming and how Flutter widgets react to state changes.
• Learn to import dart libraries to incorporate additional functionality.
• Learn about how variables, data types and functions work in Dart 2.
• Build flexible layouts using the Flutter Expanded widget.
• Understand the relationship between setState(), State objects and Stateful Widgets.

Leveraging Flutter Packages

• Learn to use the Dart package manager to incorporate Flutter compatible packages into your projects.
• Understanding the structure of the pubspec.yaml file.
• Incorporate the audioplayers package to play sound.
• Learn more about functions in Dart and the arrow syntax.
• Learn to refactor widgets and understand Flutter’s philosophy of UI as code.

Structuring Flutter Apps

• Learn about how lists and conditionals work in Dart.
• Learn about classes and objects in Dart and how it apply to Flutter widgets.
• Understand Object Oriented Dart and how to apply the fundamentals of OOP to restructuring a Flutter app.
• Learn to use Dart Constructors to create customisable Flutter widgets.
• Apply common mobile design patterns to structure Flutter apps.
• Learn about structuring and organising Flutter apps.

Creating Beautiful UI with Flutter

• Customize apps with Theme widgets.
• Refactoring widgets by extracting them as separate Widget classes.
• Learn about Dart annotations and modifiers.
• Understand the immutability of Stateless and Stateful Widgets and how the screen is updated with the build() method.
• Create custom Flutter Widgets by combining smaller widgets.
• Learn about the difference between final and const in Dart.
• Learn about maps, enums and the ternary operator in Dart.
• Understand that functions are first class objects in Dart and how functions can be passed around as arguments.
• Learn to build multi-screen Flutter apps by learning about routes and the Navigator widget.
• Understand why flutter favours composition vs. inheritance when customising widgets.

Powering Flutter Apps with Backend Data

• Learn about asynchronous programming in Dart and understand how to use async/await and the Futures API.
• Understand Stateful Widget lifecycle methods.
• Handling exceptions in dart with try/catch and throw.
• Use Dart null aware operators to prevent app crashes.
• Getting location data from both iOS and Android.
• Using the http package to perform networking and get live data from open APIs.
• Understanding how to parse JSON data using the dart:convert library.
• Understand how to pass data to State objects via the Stateful Widget.
• Use the TextField Widget to take user input.
• Understand how to pass data backwards using the Navigator widget.

Cupertino Widgets and Platform based UI

• Learn to use the Cupertino package and build Flutter apps for iOS with UIKit styled Cupertino widgets.
• Use the dart:io library to detect runtime platform and create separate UIs for iOS and Android in the same Flutter app.
• Learn to use Dart loops to create recurring widgets.

Integrating Flutter App with Firebase

• Learn to use hero animations in Flutter apps.
• Understand how the animation controller works and create custom animations.
• Learn to use Dart mixins to extend class functionality.
• Incorporate Firebase Cloud Firestore into your Flutter apps.
• Implement authentication in your Flutter apps with the Firebase Auth package.
• Build a scrolling ListView widget to learn how Flutter creates and destroys reusable elements.
• Understand Dart Streams to listen to data changes.
• Learn to use the Flutter StreamBuild to turn streams of data into widgets that can be rendered.

• Flutter vs other cross-platform frameworks
• Installing Flutter
• Overview of Flutter Features and Architecture
• Choosing an IDE
• Using the Dart Programming Language
• Creating an Application
• Using Templates and Scaffolding
• Working with Widgets (Stateless vs Stateful)
• Creating the User Interface
• Reloading the App while Maintaining State (Hot Reloading)
• Customizing the App with Layouts, Painting, and Animation
• Adding Packages and Plugins
• Accessing the Native Platform’s APIs
• Testing the Appp
• Troubleshooting