Top 10 Flutter Apps You Must Make as a Beginner
The apps assist you in growing your career as well as stepping up from beginner to expert.
This article focuses on the 10 most important Flutter apps that a beginner should build, so we’ll discuss the advantages of making these apps and what things you’ll learn as a beginner.
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Now let’s get to the main content, which is the apps you should make. The first app I would like to discuss is a simple calculator.
1) Calculator App
In order to learn how to flutter, you should make a simple calculator. So what will the advantages be if you make a simple calculator in Flutter? You will learn about different widgets, such as rows, columns, flexible, and wrap if you make a calculator.
As you are making the buttons for the calculator, these are the widgets that you will use. I’m not talking about whether you should use the APIs for the mathematical functions. The calculator I’m talking about has four features: plus and minus, multiply, and divide.
As far as the four functions that you need to provide are concerned, your main focus should be on the widgets, learning the user interface, and how to design an application using Flutter so that you are familiar with Dart programming.
So, using this app, you will get introduced to various widgets right away, and rows and columns will be the most important thing that you will learn. In other words, this application is a great introduction to Flutter’s user interface and environment.
Let’s move on to a little more complex and let’s go on with the second app, which is a simple to-do list.
2. TO DO Application
After making a simple calculator, you are now familiar with widgets. Right now you know how to design a screen for your app. Right now you should focus on integrating your app with the database.
Basically, if we’re talking about Flutter, the Firebase database is the easiest to integrate with Flutter right now. If you’re a beginner, you should use the Firebase database, but if you’re an intermediate or an expert, you can use any database.
So as you manage your tasks, you will learn the CRUD operation, which is created, retrieve, update, and delete. These are the four major functions that you must know when working with a database, so by doing the application, you will become more knowledgeable about how to integrate your app with databases. You will learn more about Firebase.
The Firebase database is a cloud-based storage platform. The authentication process is based on email, phone, and google authentication. If you are a beginner, don’t use Google or Facebook because you need to make sure you are authenticating the user using either an email or phone number.
In this second app, you will learn about different functions like deleting a database, deleting a file from the database with cloud firestore, and how to fetch that data from the database with cloud firestore.
You should make this second app as a beginner if you’re learning Flutter. Next we’ll talk about the third application you should make. Now let’s talk about APIs. APIs are application programming interfaces that you have to call, you have to get data from, so let’s talk about APIs.
APIs are like souls when it comes to app development. Without APIs, you can’t build an app. We don’t have every piece of data we need, some is online and we have to get it from the internet and then we have to make that data appear perfectly in our app.
I’m not telling you to make an application using APIs, I am referring to an application programming interface. I’m not saying to make an e-commerce application using APIs. No, I’m not talking about an Amazon API,so let’s move on to another app that is you have to make a simple Image Gallery App.
3. Image Gallery App
I believe that this third option is a good choice because it enables you to practice and learn important concepts such as UI layouts, state management, image loading, gesture handling, navigation, and packages by developing an Image Gallery App using Flutter. Additionally, you can integrate this app with Google Drive or any option via API, once your local images are properly managed by the app, thus giving you hands-on experience with app development.
Let’s move on to the fourth app, what would be the right fourth app for a beginner? In my opinion, a weather app should be the fourth app for a beginner.
4. Weather Application
The weather app is simple, so you have to enter the city and it should tell you what the temperature is, what the humidity is, and whether there is any rain today or tomorrow.
so there are many APIs present for weather purposes you can use those APIs to integrate into your app and you have to make a simple weather application right.
As far as applications go, we have covered a simple calculator, a to-do list, a image gallery app, and a weather app.
These are the four applications you should make as a beginner, and creating these will open your mind to the user interface and the back end, as well as the API, so you will use APIs a lot in the future when you are hired as a Flutter developer in a company.
Let’s move on to the fifth application and two more applications I will talk about APIs only, so the next application you should make is a wallpaper app.
5. Wallpaper App
If you make a wallpaper application, you can also upload it to the Google Play Store. In addition to knowing how to upload an app, you will also know how to export an APK, an app bundle, what’s in place, what’s in the Play Console, and how to create a developer account.
In the case that you make a wallpaper application, you can upload it, simple calculators and weather apps aren’t very helpful when it comes to uploading to the Play Store, but if you make a simple wallpaper app, you can upload it, and from there you can integrate Admob as well.
Rather than creating just a simple wallpaper app, create a wallpaper app for your choice, like a black wallpaper app, a nature wallpaper app, an animal wallpaper app, a baby wallpaper app, etc.
For this, you can make your own wallpaper set and upload it and you don’t have to just feed your app with the wallpaper right just make an app just create a folder, and feed all the images in it and you can use pixels API you can use Unsplash API because these APIs provide you 10 million images of different sizes.
So this is the advantage of using APIs. Now we have covered five applications, it’s time to move on to the sixth application, which should be your music player application.
6. Music Player App
As Music application is a good option for selecting for development because the above option already familiarizes you with UI and API calls, which allows you to understand local storage and the most important thing is being able to create connections between dart code and native code (for Android-kotlin/java, for iOS-swift/objective c, as well as all other OS). Moreover, this application allows you to manage background tasks as well. It is the sixth application you need to make if you are a beginner, and it has just taken me from a beginner to an intermediate.
It will inspire you to come up with other useful widgets after you create this app. In addition to the great view, you need to work on the list view you created for the wallpaper. Since you will have to feed dynamic data from the internet to your widgets as well as manage background tasks, it is a little more complicated here.
Therefore, the sixth application should be the same as the seventh, but as a movie application, it has a very unique feature.
7. Movies Application
You will be using the TMDB API in the movies app. The TMDB API can be used to fetch shows and movies that are trending in the top-rated shows.
I think this much this can be a little challenging for you since you have to use this API to book the seats of the movies correctly, so if you do not think you can do it, just skip it. However, you should create a movie app, so that by using this app you can show the movie description, how many ratings it got, and when it is expected to be released, if it is coming up soon.
These APIs can be used to create wallpaper applications, movie applications, weather applications, and so many applications you can create. I promise you that if you develop one application during APIs, you will be able to make another one. You won’t have to read the documentation, you will be able to do everything on your own. Now let’s take a look at an e-commerce store, which is a unique application that you can develop.
8. E-Commerce App
The eighth application is an e-commerce store. To do this, you can simply contact your local grocery store and say that you plan to create a grocery application. You will need to create two applications if you wish to create an e-commerce store. The first application will be for the customer, where he or she will see the products and can purchase them by adding them to the cart.
It is therefore important that you integrate these things into your application. The second app is an admin panel, which will allow the shopkeeper to upload new products, update the price, or let the shopkeeper know that the product is no longer available in their store because it has been sold.
In addition to earning money, you could integrate ads and charge the shopkeeper for an admin panel. To make a customer application, you could use the delivery option, such as home delivery, or you could pick up a feature, so the next application, the ninth, should be a clone.
9. Social Networking Apps Clone
Since I started developing, I’ve made Instagram clones, Facebook clones, Netflix clones, and Spotify clones, and I’m still working on them. The reason for this is cloning just because you will get the UI, and you need to copy the animation.
Basically, there are certain animations in the app. The splash screen is there, the logo is there, and then whatever effects are there, you need to integrate them all and you shouldn’t just clone the UI but also the backend like you would if you created an Instagram-like social network.
A user will be able to like someone else’s photos, then he or she will have followers, so you can create your own social network.
Because YouTube APIs are available, you can also clone it with a social networking site, such as Facebook.
It needs to be cloned, so you can make Facebook clones, Twitter clones, LinkedIn clones, etc., and these are the clones. Machine learning should be your tenth application.
10. ML(machine learning) applications
Firebase MLkit or any other option should be used to create machine learning applications. You need to make a live object detection app if you are an intermediate or beginner. The live camera will open and it should be able to identify the object right away, so the machine learning application you need to make can use the UI kits, the AR core, or the air core, as this type of application should be one that uses machine learning or an AR core.
The choice of what application you make at what point in time is completely up to you. Also, I gathered information from a variety of websites and sources, so if you find any errors or misdirected links, please let me know.
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