Creating a Test Application

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…

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…

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…

Most apps will need to get some sort of data from the Internet. If you think about how much data there is, you would never want to update an app to store all of the data in your app. It would make your app both unnecessarily large and you would be updating it all the…

In our previous example, we saw how to get the text field value when we the field was changing, but what about if we want to get it on demand, like when we press a button? Turns out, it is a similar process as to what we just did. The FloatingActionButton First, in our app…

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…