An introduction to cross platform mobile development with Flutter

An introduction to cross-platform mobile development with Flutter, with Tom Alabaster.

Flutter Workshop

Section 1 (9:30 - 10:00):
- What is Flutter?
- Why is Flutter different?
- How does Flutter work?
- Material design vs Cupertino
- Design for the brand vs design for the platform

Section 2 (10:05 - 12:30):
- Dart language
- Hands on: Creating a new Flutter project
- Hands on: Exploring available widgets
- Stateless vs Stateful widgets
- Hands on: Constructing our own widgets
- Hands on: Scrollables
- Columns and Rows
- Hands on: Columns and Rows
- Hands on: ListViews
- Navigation
- Hands on: Navigation

Section 3 (13:30 - 15:00):
- Debugging tools
- Visual debugging
- Advanced navigation
- Hands on: Advanced navigation
- Tabs and "fragments"
- Hands on: Tabs and "fragments"
- Hands on: Making HTTP requests
- Hands on: Futures

Section 4 (15:05 - 17:00)
- Building for multiple form factors
- Running native code
- Unit, Widget and Integration testing

Tom Alabaster
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-a/

Tom is a mobile developer at earthware (earthware.co.uk) and has been doing mobile development for more than 4 years. He's used native development tools and various cross-platform technologies in the past but has always been hunting for the "holy grail" of mobile app development.

(Please note, this event will be held in Conference​ Room 2, at The King's Centre)