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
