Preface

When I started using Flutter in September 2017, it was in an alpha stage. I started using it because my boss told me to. I had no opinions about it because I had never heard of it. I hadn’t even heard of Dart, which had been around for nearly a decade by then. But—and this probably isn’t a spoiler— I got hooked immediately. Not only is the end product of the highest quality, but the development process is perhaps the most enjoyable of any SDK that I’ve used. The tooling, the community, the API, and the Dart language are all a joy to participate in.

That’s why I’ve written this book. I legitimately believe that Dart and Flutter are the near-future, gold-standard of application development. And I’ve written a book that I think will get ...

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