IN THIS CHAPTER

A celebration of having ten chapters in this book

Perhaps a waste of two pages

Introduction

Remarks about this book

What Is Flutter?

A bunch of vocabulary (some interesting and some not-so-interesting), all of it useful

Setting Up Your Computer for Mobile App Development

Downloading and installing stuff

‘Hello’ from Flutter

Examining a simple Flutter app

Hello Again

Digging deeper into the simple Flutter app

Making Things Happen

Responding to button presses and other such events

Laying Things Out

Making widgets be where you want them to be

Interacting with the User

Doris’s dating app

Navigation, Lists, and Other Goodies

Taking your app from one page to another and, as a special bonus, fetching information from the Internet

Moving Right Along …

Adding animation to your app