5 Flutter Project Ideas for Beginners
- By Nasir Zaidi
Flutter is Google’s Software development kit used to develop cross-platform apps. It was released in 2017 and has gained significant traction in the past two years, overtaking React Native this year to rank in the top 10 most popular frameworks.
If you’re an aspiring developer looking to master Flutter, you will naturally have to exert a lot of effort in order to succeed. Tutorials, courses and boot camps are a great way of kick-starting your learning journey.
However, in order to implement these concepts practically you have to practice. A LOT! Practice makes a man perfect and being a good programmer requires dedication and effort. What else would be a better way to practice than developing your own projects?
Once you’ve built these projects, you can even showcase them in your portfolio in order to attract clients for freelance work.
I’ve compiled a list of 5 simple Flutter Project ideas that will not only accelerate your learning but also look good on your portfolio!
1. Simple Counter App
A good way to start is by building a simple counter app that increments or decrements when a user taps on the counter. This simple starter app introduces you to basic Flutter concepts like StatefulWidget, Scaffold, and state within a Flutter app.
You may follow these instructions to build a simple counter app.
2. Build a Login Screen
This is a simple Flutter application with a simple login screen that will prompt users to input their username and password. This project will introduce you to Text, TextButton and ElevatedButton widgets.
For detailed instructions, you may follow Tutorial Kart’s guidelines. Once you have written the code, you may run it on any iOS or Android simulator to render two unique screens.
You do not necessarily have to stick with the same theme and can change the colors, padding, margin or backgrounds, to create a custom theme.
3. Calculator App
A good project to work on your Flutter skills is a simple Calculator App that lets you perform simple arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
As a result, you will have a better understanding of ‘if and else’ loops, function writing, screen widgets, and GridView.builder (Flutter widget that displays items in 2-D rows and columns).
You may view the source code for a Calculator App here.
4. To-do list App
Having to remember a week’s worth of tasks is quite daunting and I personally find apps like Sticky Notes quite handy. Jotting down clustered thoughts and priority tasks on them keeps me from missing meetings or deadlines since hey, not all of us are good at multi-tasking!
A basic understanding of state management, and packages like carousel_slider, phot_view, pull_to_refresh will provide you a good learning curve.
You can add multiple items, delete them, customize the color theme and a lot more. Check out the source code here.
5. Tic Tac Toe Game
What else would be more satisfying than building a game we all grew up playing with? The tic tac toe app is aimed at solidifying your basics in Flutter and giving you a deeper understanding of widgets.
This project will cover concepts like GridView.builder, function writing, gesture detector and ‘if else’ loops. The code will decide a winner on the basis of input, display win and draw dialog boxes, and clear the board once the game is over.
You can start off by going through GeeksforGeek’s tutorial.
