- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About This Book
- About the Author
- About the Cover Illustration
- Part 1. Meet Flutter
- Chapter 1. Meet Flutter
- 1.1. Why does Flutter use Dart?
- 1.2. On Dart
- 1.3. Who uses Flutter?
- 1.4. Who should be using Flutter?
- 1.5. Who this book is for
- 1.6. Other mobile development options
- 1.7. The immediate benefits of Flutter
- 1.8. Future benefits of Flutter: Web apps and desktop apps
- 1.9. A brief intro to how Flutter works
- 1.10. Flutter rendering: Under the hood
- 1.11. Final note
- Summary
- Chapter 2. A brief intro to Dart
- Chapter 3. Breaking into Flutter
- 3.1. Intro to the counter app
- 3.2. Widgets: The widget tree, widget types, and the State object
- 3.3. BuildContext
- 3.4. Enhancing the counter app with the most important widgets
- 3.5. Favor composition in Flutter (over inheritance)
- 3.6. Intro to layout in Flutter
- 3.7. The element tree
- 3.8. A final note
- Summary
- Chapter 1. Meet Flutter
- Part 2. Flutter user interaction, styles, and animations
- Part 3. State management and asynchronous Dart
- Part 4. Beyond foundations
- Appendix A. Installation: Dart2
- Appendix B. The Pub package manager
- Appendix C. Flutter for web developers
- Appendix D. Flutter for iOS developers
- D.1. What’s the equivalent of UIView in Flutter?
- D.2. What’s the paradigm or mental model difference?
- D.3. Can I build an app that uses iOS design patterns?
- D.4. How to I make complex layouts like UITableView?
- D.5. What’s similar to Storyboard?
- D.6. How do you draw to the screen?
- D.7. How do I add dependencies (like Cocoa Pods)?
- D.8. How do I interact with the device and use native APIs?
- D.9. Is there an equivalent to CoreData?
- Appendix E. Flutter for Android developers
- E.1. What’s the equivalent of a view in Flutter?
- E.2. What’s the paradigm or mental model difference?
- E.3. Where’s the XML layout file?
- E.4. How do I draw to the screen?
- E.5. What’s the equivalent of an intent in Flutter?
- E.6. What’s the equivalent of runOnUiThread() in Flutter?
- E.7. What’s the equivalent of a Gradle file? How do I add dependencies?
- E.8. What’s the equivalent of a LinearLayout? What about ScrollView?
- E.9. How do I access shared preferences or SQLite?
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
D.9. Is there an equivalent to CoreData?
Not exactly. But CoreData in iOS is actually just a thin wrapper over an SQL database. There is a Flutter package, called SQFLite, that you can use to mimic this functionality.
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