Flutter App Development

Module 1: INTRODUCTION TO FLUTTER

• What is Flutter?
• Why Flutter?
• The Anatomy of a Flutter App
• Course Resources

Module 2: SETUP AND INSTALLATION

• Prerequisites for Flutter Development
• Overview of the Process
• Install Flutter SDK
• Installation of Android Studio
• Install Android Emulator
• Configuration of Flutter Development

Module 3: CREATE FLUTTER APPS FROM SCRATCH

• Creating a New Flutter
• Scaffolding a Flutter App
• Working with Assets in Flutter & the Pubspec file
• How to add app icons to IOS and Android Apps

Module 4: RUNNING YOUR APP ON PHYSICS DEVICE

• Deploying Flutter Apps to an Android / IOS Phone

Module 5: UIS WITH FLUTTER WIDGETS:

• Business Card App
• How to Use Container Widgets
• How to use Column & Row Widgets for Layout
• Flutter Layouts Challenge
• Tapping into Widget Properties
• Incorporating Custom Fonts in Your Flutter App
• Adding Material Icons with the Icon Widget
• Flutter Card & ListTile Widgets
• Text View and Edit Text
• Building Apps with State

Module 6: FUNCTIONS:

• Making the Dice Image Change Reactively
• Variables
• Data Types
• Stateful vs. Stateless Widgets - What's the Difference?

Module 7: A DECISION-MAKING APP:

• Set Up the Project
• Create a Stateless Widget
• Create a Stateful Widget
• Make it Interactive
• Update the State

Module 8: USING FLUTTER AND DART PACKAGES TO SPEED UP DEVELOPMENT

• Xylophone - A Simple Musical Instrument App
• What is Flutter & Dart Packages?
• How to Play Sound Across Platforms
• How to Play Multiple Sounds
• Functions
• Updating the UI of Our App
• Functions Challenge
• Refactoring Our App
• Arrow Functions

Module 9: MODULARIZING & ORGANIZING FLUTTER CODE:

• Building a Score Keeper
• Lists
• Displaying the Questions
• Checking User Answers
• Conditionals - IF/ELSE
• More Dart Programming Challenges
• Creating a Question Class
• Classes and Objects
• Abstraction in Action
• Encapsulation in Action
• Inheritance in Action
• Polymorphism in Action

Module 10: A CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE GAME:

• Set Up the Project
• Familiarize Yourself with the Starting Project
• Adding an Image as a Background
• Solutions on GitHub
• Create a New Story Class
• Create the Story Brain
• Display the Story in the App
• Display the Choices in the App
• Update the Story Based on User Choice
• Use the Story Plan to Progress through the Story
• Restart the Game When the User Reaches the End

Module 11: BUILDING FLUTTER UI FOR INTERMEDIATES:

• How to Use Flutter Themes
• How to Refactor Flutter Widgets
• Final vs. Const
• Creating Custom Flutter Widgets
• The Gesture Detector Widget
• Dart] Enums
• [Dart] Ternary Operator
• Functions as First Order Objects
• The Flutter Slider Widget

Module 12: POWERING YOUR FLUTTER APP WITH LIVE WEB DATA

• Getting Location Data From Across Platforms
• [Dart] Futures, Async & Await
• Stateful Widget Lifecycle Methods
• [Dart] Exception Handling & Null Aware Operators
• Async/Await Challenge
• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Explained
• Networking in Flutter Apps with the HTTP Package
• JSON Parsing and Dynamic Types
• Getting Actual Weather Data from the OpenWeatherMap API

Module 13: SIMPLE CRYPTOCURRENCY PRICE TRACKER

• The Material DropdownButton Widget
• Dart] Loops
• Building Widgets with Loops Solution
• Introducing Cupertino Widgets
• Building Platform Specific UI (iOS & Android)

Module 14: FLUTTER X FIREBASE CLOUD FIRESTORE

• Named Routes Challenge
• Static Modifier
• Refactor Routes with the Static Const
• Flutter Hero Animations
• Custom Flutter Animations with the Animation Controller
• [Dart] Mixins
• Prepackaged Flutter Animations
• Code Refactoring Challenge
• Creating a New Firebase Project
• Potential Problems When Incorporating Firebase

Module 15: FLUTTER STATE MANAGEMENT

• Todoey - Your very own To-Do List App
• Designing the To-Do List App
• The ListView Challenge
• The BottomSheet Widget
• What is State and How do we Manage it?
• How do Callbacks work in Dart?
• The ListView Builder
• Lifting State Up Challenge
• Flutter App Architecture Patterns
• Introducing the Provider Package
• Using a Provider and a ChangeNotifier to Manage State
• Adding New To-Do List Tasks
• Checking off To-Do List Tasks
• Deleting Tasks using the Provider Design Pattern