One of the things the Flutter team is deeply grateful for is the supportive community of Flutter developers. For nearly any question you may have, you can find an answer on Stack Overflow, Medium, or even someone’s GitHub account. Many answers come with fully working sample code with a license that lets you use the code right in your application. We see this spirit of cooperation and camaraderie as crucial to making you successful with Flutter.
Until now, though, there’s been little material that you can actually hold in your hands and work through at your desk or in the evenings as you learn how to use Flutter. While blogs, Medium, and online documentation have been a paradigm shift for book publishers, especially in computing, there’s still a need for long-form material on topics, and Flutter is no exception.
This is why this book is so important. There are things you can’t get from a five-hundred-word Medium post or a snippet of code on Stack Overflow. Thinking deeply about things like how your application manages its state requires you to understand the platform deeply. In this book, you’ll not only see how to use Flutter, but you’ll understand why using Flutter in the ways Eric and people online say to actually works in practice.