Where You’re Going Next
You’re done, congratulations! Now all that’s left to do is to apply the knowledge you’ve acquired to the real world. There is a great community of Flutter-related content online, starting from the great and comprehensive official API reference I mentioned so many times during the course of this book. Navigating that requires some knowledge of the overall structure and inner-workings of a Flutter app and I hope you’ve been able to get that from reading this book.
If you don’t feel comfortable writing Flutter apps because you feel like you need to learn more about Dart, Appendix 1, Introduction to Dart might be just what you need.
Perhaps after that you will find something more interesting: the body of this book has been focused on building Material Design UIs, interacting with packages and plugins, and writing Dart code. In Appendix 2, Apple-Like Look and Additional App Configuration you will find out how to write apps that look like native iOS apps using Cupertino widgets and how to make your app fit in with each OS’s typical style; it also contains some useful information regarding additional app configuration, contained in both pubspec.yaml and the platform-specific android and ios directories. For example, the platform-specific configuration allows you to change the launcher icon and the app name to whatever you want (since by default you can only set lowercase names without spaces with Flutter, but you can edit the platform-specific configuration to set the app name to be whatever can be a regular Android/iOS app name).
Because of all of that, it’s strongly recommended that you read the second appendix.
Anyway, this book can’t possibly contain all of the different widgets, features, and options that Flutter offers you: now it’s up to you to find what you need. After having seen so much of how Flutter works and what it can do, you’re well positioned to navigate the vast array of official and community-created content about whatever niche aspect of Flutter you’d like to explore next.