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Introduction to Flutter: Building Beautiful Cross-Platform Apps |
Flutter is an open-source UI software development toolkit created by Google. |
It is designed to build natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. |
Flutter provides a fast, expressive, and flexible way to develop visually stunning |
applications with high performance. |
It is a powerful framework for building cross-platform applications with beautiful, |
highly-customizable UIs. By leveraging Flutter's rich set of widgets, hot reload feature, and platform-specific integrations, |
developers can create high-quality apps that run smoothly on multiple platforms with minimal effort. |
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Why Choose Flutter? |
One of the primary advantages of Flutter is its ability to create beautiful, |
highly-customized user interfaces (UI) quickly and efficiently. Here's why Flutter stands out: |
1- Single Codebase: With Flutter, you write one codebase that runs on multiple platforms, including iOS, |
Android, web, and desktop. This means you can reach a broader audience with less effort. |
2- Expressive UI: Flutter uses a declarative approach to building UI, meaning you describe what you want your UI to look like, |
and Flutter handles the rendering. This allows for highly expressive and customizable UI designs. |
3- Fast Development: Flutter's hot reload feature allows developers to instantly see changes they make |
to the code reflected on the app UI, speeding up the development process significantly. |
4- Native Performance: Flutter apps are compiled directly to native machine code, |
providing near-native performance on each platform. |
5- Rich Set of Widgets: Flutter comes with an extensive collection of pre-designed widgets for |
building UI elements such as buttons, text inputs, sliders, and more. These widgets are highly |
customizable and can be combined to create complex UI layouts. |
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Widgets: The Building Blocks of Flutter |
In Flutter, everything is a widget. A widget is a lightweight, |
reusable component that represents a part of the UI. Flutter provides two types of widgets: |
1- Stateless Widgets: These widgets are immutable and do not have any internal state. |
Stateless widgets are used for UI elements that do not change over time, such as buttons, icons, or static text. |
2- Stateful Widgets: Stateful widgets maintain internal state that can change over time. |
They are used for UI elements that need to update dynamically, such as input fields, animations, or lists. |
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How Flutter Works |
At the heart of Flutter's architecture is the Flutter Engine, |
which is written primarily in C++. |
The Flutter Engine provides low-level rendering support through Google's Skia graphics library. |
Here's a simplified overview of how Flutter works: |
1- UI Rendering: Flutter uses a custom rendering engine to draw UI elements directly to the screen, |
bypassing the platform's native UI components. This allows for consistent UI across different platforms. |
2- Dart Programming Language: Flutter apps are written in the Dart programming language, |
which was also developed by Google. Dart provides features such as a just-in-time (JIT) compiler for rapid development and a ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler for producing highly optimized native code. |
3- Widgets Layer: Developers use Flutter's extensive widget library to compose the UI of their applications. |
Widgets are arranged in a tree hierarchy, with each widget responsible for rendering a specific part of the UI. |
4- Hot Reload: Flutter's hot reload feature allows developers to make changes to the code and see the results instantly without restarting the app. |
This greatly speeds up the development process and enables iterative UI design |
5- Platform Channels: Flutter provides platform channels that allow communication between Flutter code and platform-specific code written in Java (for Android) or Objective-C/Swift (for iOS). |
This enables developers to access platform-specific features and APIs when needed. |
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Understanding constraints in Flutter |
info Note |
If you are experiencing specific layout errors, |
you might check out Common Flutter errors. |
When someone learning Flutter asks you why some widget |
with width: 100 isn’t 100 pixels wide, |
the default answer is to tell them to put that widget |
inside of a Center, right? |
Don’t do that. |
If you do, they’ll come back again and again, |
asking why some FittedBox isn’t working, |
why that Column is overflowing, or what |
IntrinsicWidth is supposed to be doing. |
Instead, first tell them that Flutter layout is very different |
from HTML layout (which is probably where they’re coming from), |
and then make them memorize the following rule: |
Flutter layout can’t really be understood without knowing |
this rule, so Flutter developers should learn it early on. |
In more detail: |
For example, if a composed widget contains a column |
with some padding, and wants to lay out its two children |
as follows: |
The negotiation goes something like this: |
Widget: “Hey parent, what are my constraints?” |
Parent: “You must be from 0 to 300 pixels wide, |
and 0 to 85 tall.” |
Widget: “Hmmm, since I want to have 5 pixels of padding, |
then my children can have at most 290 pixels of width |
and 75 pixels of height.” |
Widget: “Hey first child, You must be from 0 to 290 |
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