Google’s Flutter is one of today’s fastest-growing frameworks for cross-platform mobile development, but most resources leave beginners overwhelmed. This book is a comprehensive, classroom-tested guide that teaches students and self-learners to master Flutter, starting from the Dart language and progressing to complete mobile applications.

Unlike the fragmented tutorials scattered across the web, this book follows a single, coherent path that has been refined over two semesters of teaching undergraduates. It takes a deliberate Dart-first approach: Readers build a real command of the language, including variables, control flow, functions, collections, object-oriented programming, and null safety, before writing a single line of Flutter. That foundation is what separates developers who can only copy code from those who can reason about it and build apps that hold up.

From there, the chapters move through Flutter’s widget system, responsive layouts, state management, navigation, user input, dynamic lists, asynchronous programming, and integration with live data and JSON APIs. Every Flutter chapter has readers building a running app around a single concept, reinforced with hands-on exercises, and the final chapters culminate in several complete applications, from a full task manager to apps that pull real data from the web, which readers can add to their portfolio.

Organized into 27 short, focused chapters that each tackle just one or two ideas, the book works equally well for self-study and as an adoption-ready text for a semester-long course or bootcamp. By the end of the book, readers will have moved from knowing some code to building and shipping real cross-platform apps for Android, iOS, web, and desktop, with the confidence to keep building on their own.

What You Will Learn:

• Master the fundamentals of the Dart language, from variables to object-oriented programming and null safety
• Build beautiful, responsive UIs with Flutter’s widget system
• Manage state, navigation, and user input to create dynamic, interactive apps
• Fetch and display live data from real web APIs using asynchronous Dart and JSON
• Build several complete, portfolio-ready apps, from a task manager to apps powered by live APIs

Who This Book Is For:

Individuals at a beginning-intermediate level who know some code and are ready to dive into mobile development; Computer Science students, recent bootcamp graduates, and self-taught developers who have some experience in another programming language (such as Python, Java, or JavaScript), and who are already comfortable with core concepts such as conditionals, loops, and object-oriented programming

Dr. Shereef Abu Al-Maati is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the American University of Kuwait (AUK), an institution partnered with Dartmouth College. Over more than 20 years of teaching, he has refined the clear, step-by-step approach to programming that shapes this book.

Dr. Al-Maati’s practical focus is backed by substantial industry experience. At the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, he worked alongside international partners including IBM, Martin Marietta Data Systems, and the US Navy to build mission-critical software that automated the operational readiness of the Kuwait Air Force. As an independent consultant, he designed and developed one of the first web-based asset portfolio management systems for the Kuwait Stock Exchange.

Dr. Al-Maati has served as founding Division Head of Sciences & Engineering, later Department Chair of Computer Science & Information Systems, and was a founding board member of Kuwait’s National Bureau for Academic Accreditation, the government agency for the Ministry of Higher Education. Having joined when AUK opened in 2004 as one of its first faculty, he substantially modernized the Computer Science and Information Systems curricula to keep them current and industry-relevant.

Dr. Al-Maati has also co-authored a chapter in the Springer book, Machine Learning for Real World Applications. This book, Flutter & Dart Fundamentals, is the culmination of his unique blend of industry experience and pedagogical expertise, sharing the same classroom-tested, step-by-step approach he has used for years to turn aspiring students into confident developers.