Any good flutter resources for a beginner? (Building in public)
I'm looking for Flutter resources. I started reading Flutter in Action, so far so good.
I see many tutorials, books, videos, but most of them are outdated.
I'm trying to start building quickly. Of course, I'll learn the basics really well first but the goal is to build a production app before January 2022. I don't know if that's realistic or not but I'll give it a try.
I want to consume as much Flutter content as I can, but I want to make sure I'm looking at the best resources in order to save time.
The app that I want to build is a booking app for doctors with different screens for users and doctors.
User will be able to schedule, see appointments, pay, etc
Doctors will be able to manage the appointments, send notifications, etc.
I'm aware apps like this exists but this is my first app/goal for now.
I will try to build in public and share my path with the community.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks !!!
You can try this
https://www.appbrewery.co/p/flutter-development-bootcamp-with-dart
Check udemy for stephen grider course on flutter.
I am currently 60% of the way through the app brewery course.
It’s been “ok” so far. Good in that I feel like I am actually learning the information and retaining it. But on the flip side…
The course hasn’t been updated in a while. Many of the lessons use depreciated techniques. Some lessons that use dart packages have to use older versions than current to work.
And on a more personal preference, she spends a lot of time going over techniques only to tell you in the next lesson that no one really does it that way, and here’s the short hand way to do it. And then in the next lesson is back to long form syntax. It makes reading help on stackoverflow incredibly frustrating because the syntax doesn’t line up.
It also glances over Functions as first objects, and I had to do some side reading to even understand the concept of passing functions around.
This is the case with some other resources I've encountered. The code hasn't been updated which makes it hard to complete anything without having to spend hours debugging.
Any resources you find useful?
Not really, TBH. Any of these courses, especially for a younger language, are going to be out dated quickly.
For me, the question/answers on the course sections in Udemy helped me get through the struggles.
The only other tip I have is to match the versioning of the flutter packages they use in the course to the one she's using in the video. Some of those packages have changed drastically since the course release.
Thanks for the tips. I'll keep that in mind.
I'll take a look. Thanks !!