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  • Flutter REST API

    In this section, we are going to learn how we can access the REST API in the Flutter app. Today, most of the apps use remote data using APIs. So, this section will be the important part for those developers who want to make their carrier in Flutter. Flutter provides http package to use http resources. The…

  • Flutter Slivers

    Sliver is a portion of the scrollable area which is used to achieve a custom scrolling effect. In other words, the sliver widget is a slice of the viewport. We can implement all of the scrollable views, such as ListView, GridView using slivers. It is a lower-level interface that provides excellent control over implementing a…

  • Flutter Google Maps

    A map is used to get information about the world simply and visually. It presents the world places by showing its shape and sizes, locations and distance between them. We can add a map in our application with the use of the Google Maps Flutter plugin. This plugin can automatically access the Google Maps servers, map…

  • Flutter Splash Screen

    A splash screen is a launch screen, start screen, or boot screen, which is a graphical control element containing the image, logo, and current version of the software. It is the first screen of the app that displays whenever the application is loading. It can also be the app’s welcome screen that provides a simple initial…

  • Flutter Packages

    A package is a namespace that contains a group of similar types of classes, interfaces, and sub-packages. We can think of packages as similar to different folders on our computers where we might keep movies in one folder, images in another folder, software in another folder, etc. In Flutter, Dart organizes and shares a set…

  • Flutter Creating Android Platform-Specific Code

    In this section, we are going to see how we can write custom platform-specific code in Flutter. Flutter is an excellent framework, which provides a mechanism to handle/access platform-specific features. This feature allows the developer to extend the functionality of the Flutter framework. Some of the essential platform-specific functionality that can be accessed easily through…

  • Flutter Buttons

    Buttons are the graphical control element that provides a user to trigger an event such as taking actions, making choices, searching things, and many more. They can be placed anywhere in our UI like dialogs, forms, cards, toolbars, etc. Buttons are the Flutter widgets, which is a part of the material design library. Flutter provides several types…

  • Flutter Text Field

    A TextField or TextBox is an input element which holds the alphanumeric data, such as name, password, address, etc. It is a GUI control element that enables the user to enter text information using a programmable code. It can be of a single-line text field (when only one line of information is required) or multiple-line text field (when more…

  • GridView.extent()

    This property is used when we want to create a grid with custom extent values. It means each tile has a maximum cross-axis extent. Example Let us understand it with the help of an example. Open the project, navigate to the lib folder, and replace the below code with the main.dart file. Output When we run the app…

  • GridView.builder()

    This property is used when we want to display data dynamically or on-demand. In other words, if the user wants to create a grid with a large (infinite) number of children, then they can use the GridView.builder() constructor with either a SliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCount or a SliverGridDelegateWithMaxCrossAxisExtent. The common attributes of this widget are: itemCount: It is used…

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