Chapter 2
Laying Out More Widgets

We have built a simple Flutter app starting from an example. Now it’s time to start writing apps from scratch so that you’ll be able to build any kind of app a client or employer might request of you. In this chapter you will learn about the different Flutter layout and content widgets, and how to add your own custom assets to Flutter apps.

After this chapter you should be able to create any Flutter layout and be able to apply the principles explained in the other feature-oriented chapters to the app you want to build.

We’ll go through the different ways of laying out widgets with small examples to show them in action in a realistic context.

As an example of some of the different layout widgets that will be shown in this chapter, here are the widgets that we’ll be using to build a calculator in the next chapter: