In this example we need to look at how to build a form within Flutter. Forms are important if we want to get information from our users to send to a server so it can be used in other areas. Our first step will be to build the generic app, and then remove most everything…
Passing arguments to a flutter navigation is important as it allows for more dynamic content, just as you might find with a dynamic website. To pass arguments, we will need to build a class to hold the arguments, and a Widget that can extract them. Then we will need to update the navigation. We will…
Now that we’ve seen the basics of Flutter navigation, we want to add to our capabilities. We are going to keep going off of our last example with the two screens to navigate between. However, we will be changing some things. Updating our main In our main file, we currently create our app, and set…
Since most apps have multiple screens, we want to find a way to move from one screen to another using Flutter. Mobile apps use a queue to track which screen is currently being shown, and which screens have previously been shown. When you want to add a screen, you push it onto the stack. When…
There are a couple of new features we want to add to our Name Generator. These include saving our favorite names, changing the UI etc. Getting Ready to Display Favorites To save a favorite, we need to have a way to keep track of them. So in our state object, we’re going to add a…
In this example we’re going to look at loading external libraries, adding additional widgets and more, all to create a name generator. Our first step is to create a new Flutter App in VSC. We’ve done this before several times. This will setup all of the libraries and connections we need initially, however we do…
Building off of the concepts of animation within Flutter, now we want to look at how we’ll create animations within Flutter. Creating a New Basic App Let’s look at a simple example. To do so, we’re going to create a new Flutter app. Next, we are going to replace the code generated with the following…
In this section we’re going to look at how to perform some basic animations in Flutter to help enhance our UI (User Interface). The Flutter SDK provides you with some built-in animations which you can use to perform actions such as fading, sliding, and resizing. The animation system in Flutter is based on typed Animation objects. Widgets…
