Introduction

About this series

In this series, we would build a simple pokemon App with the Flutter framework from scratch.  We would leverage the pokemon API

https://pokeapi.co/docs/v2 to achieve this.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED

We would cover a lot of concepts in Flutter including: 

- Installing flutter on your computer

- Project structuring

- Routing

- Flutter widgets

- Theming

- State management in Flutter

- Accessing APIs in Flutter

- Infinite scroll list in Flutter

- Equators

- JSON Serialization

- Flutter extensions

- Unit testing

- Deploying a flutter app

and many more...

STRUCTURE OF THE APP

• The app would contain a list of scrollable items, each item will contain at least the pokemon's name and the sprite image.
• When an item is pressed, it would show some info related to the pokemon
• When an item is double-tapped, the item is added to favorite
• The focus of this project is not the design, however, we'd look at theming the app.

WHY USE FLUTTER FOR THIS PROJECT

Some of the reasons I chose flutter over other cross-platform frameworks are:

- Fast Development: Flutter features hot reload, which allows for faster development and easier iteration.

- Beautiful User Interfaces: Flutter offers a large collection of customizable widgets, making it easy to create visually attractive and unique interfaces.

- Native Performance: Flutter apps run natively on both iOS and Android, providing smooth and fast performance.

- Strong Community Support: Flutter has a large and growing community, providing a wealth of resources, including libraries, plugins, and tools.

- Google Backed: Flutter is developed and maintained by Google, which provides strong backing and investment in the framework.

- Modern Architecture: Flutter uses a modern and reactive programming model, making it easier to maintain and scale apps.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This tutorial was made for anyone interested in learning mobile development in Flutter. If you're entirely new to flutter, this is good because we create everything from scratch.

If you already have flutter development experience, this is also good for you because you'd discover new concepts.

PRE-REQUISITE

You should have basic experience with Dart programming language.

Below are sample websites you can learn the Dart programming language.

- https://www.tutorialspoint.com/dart_programming/index.htm

- https://dart-tutorial.com/

CONCLUSION

At the end of this series, we would cover a wide range of topics that would level up your knowledge in mobile development with flutter.

Without wasting much time, let's get started.