Flutter in Production

Module 1

Course Introduction

An overview of the course structure and topics covered, along with a walkthrough of the companion app for this course.

01 - Welcome to Flutter in Production! 🎉

02 - Join Code With Andrea on Discord

03 - Intro to the Flutter App Release Checklist

04 - Intro to the Starter Project

05 - Starter Project: Code Walkthrough

06 - Wrap Up

07 - Request for Feedback

Module 2

Launcher Icons and Splash Screens

Learn how to generate your launcher icons and launch screens on Android, iOS, and web.

01 - Intro to Launcher Icons

02 - Generating App Icons with Flutter Launcher Icons

03 - Launcher Icon Guidelines and Android Adaptive Icons

04 - How to Design Your App Icons in Figma

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05 - Flutter Launcher Icons Checklist

06 - Generating Custom Splash Screens with Flutter Native Splash

07 - Launcher Icons and Splash Screens: Wrap Up

08 - Request for Feedback

Module 3

Adding Flavors to a Flutter App

A complete guide to flavors in Flutter. What are flavors, why do we need them, and how to configure them on Android and iOS (both for new and existing apps).

01 - Intro to Flavors and Environments

02 - The Difference Between Flavors and Dart Defines

03 - Flutter Flavorizr: Introduction

04 - Flutter Flavorizr: Icons Setup

05 - Flutter Flavorizr: Android Setup

06 - Flutter Flavorizr: iOS Setup

07 - Flutter Flavors: IDE Setup (VSCode)

08 - Flutter Flavors: IDE Setup (Android Studio)

09 - Flutter Flavors Checklist

10 - Manual Flavors: Introduction and Android Setup

11 - Manual Flavors: iOS Setup

12 - Whitelabel App: Challenge

13 - Whitelabel App: Solution and Checklist

14 - Intro to Multiple Flavors with Flutter & Firebase

15 - Creating Multiple Firebase Projects

16 - FlutterFire Setup with Multiple Flavors

17 - Multi-Flavor Firebase Initialization in Dart

18 - Firebase Flavors Checklist

19 - Flutter Flavors: Wrap Up

20 - Request for Feedback

Module 4

Error Monitoring with Sentry

How to use Sentry to report, monitor, diagnose, and fix errors in your Flutter app when running in production.

01 - Intro to Error Monitoring

02 - Sentry vs Crashlytics: A Comparison

03 - Sentry Setup: Basics

04 - Sentry Setup: Environments and Flavors

05 - Fixing the First Real Issue (Zone Mismatch Error)

06 - Case Study: Capturing Exceptions Explicitly with Sentry

07 - Sentry: Dashboard Overview and Issue Resolution Workflow

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08 - How to Collect User Feedback with Sentry

09 - Sentry: Additional Options and APIs

10 - Error Monitoring Basics, Source Maps, and dSYMs

11 - How to Upload Source Maps and dSYMs with the Sentry Dart Plugin

12 - Sentry Setup Checklist

13 - How to Minimize Your Sentry Bill

14 - Error Monitoring: Wrap Up

15 - Request for Feedback

Module 5

Analytics with Mixpanel and Firebase Analytics

How to setup analytics in your Flutter client app, including: choosing an analytics provider, tracking events and screen views, enabling/disabling analytics, and some real-world examples.

01 - Intro to Analytics

02 - Comparison of Popular Analytics Providers

03 - Firebase Analytics vs Mixpanel

04 - Introduction to Event Tracking

05 - App Analytics: Requirements and Architecture Overview

06 - App Analytics: Implementation Details

07 - Tracking Custom Events

08 - Tracking Navigation Events

09 - Enabling or Disabling Analytics: Letting Users Choose

10 - App Analytics: Identify Users

11 - Mixpanel: Project Setup

12 - Mixpanel: Flutter Setup

13 - Mixpanel Dashboard Overview

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14 - Mixpanel: Debugging and Other Useful Features

15 - Firebase Analytics: FlutterFire Recap

16 - Firebase Analytics: Flutter Setup

17 - Analytics Setup Checklist

18 - Analytics: Wrap Up

19 - Request for Feedback

Module 6

Force Update Strategies

How to implement different force update strategies depending on your app type and backend.

01 - Intro to Force Update

02 - Force Update with the Upgrader Package

03 - Introduction to Force Update with Remote Config

04 - The Force Update Helper package

05 - Force Update with a GitHub Gist

06 - Force Update with Firebase Remote Config

07 - Force Update with Dart Shelf

08 - Force Update Checklist

09 - Wrap Up

10 - Request for Feedback

Module 7

Asking for In-App Reviews

How and when to ask for reviews in your mobile app using the in_app_review package.

01 - How to Ask for In-App Reviews

02 - Showing the In-App Review Prompt with requestReview

03 - Showing the Review Prompt at the Right Time

04 - Asking for Reviews with openStoreListing

05 - In-App Review Checklist

06 - Wrap Up

07 - Request for Feedback

Module 8

Creating a Landing Page for Your App

How to create a simple landing page for your app and deploy it to GitHub pages. Also included: how to generate a Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.

01 - Intro: do you need a Landing Page?

02 - Landing Page Template: Setup Guide

03 - Deploy your Website to GitHub Pages

04 - How to Generate the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

05 - Adding the Website Links to the Settings Page

06 - Wrap Up

07 - Request for Feedback

Upcoming Modules

More modules are coming soon, covering app store submissions, release automation, and more.

01 - Coming Soon

Appendix 1

A Riverpod Primer

An introduction to the Riverpod package, including: providers and consumers, asynchronous providers, notifiers, dependency management, data caching, and additional techniques.

01 - Intro to Riverpod

02 - How to Manage Dependencies in Flutter

03 - Riverpod: Installation and Setup

04 - Introduction to Providers and Consumers

05 - The difference between ref.read and ref.watch

06 - Asynchronous Providers in Riverpod

07 - Passing Arguments to Providers (Families)

08 - Introduction to Riverpod Notifiers

09 - Asynchronous Notifiers in Riverpod

10 - Eager Provider Initialization and Usage with requireValue

11 - The Provider Lifecycle and when to use keepAlive

12 - Wrap Up

13 - Request for Feedback

Appendix 2

Common Problems and Solutions

Solutions to common problems including: version conflicts, upgrading dependencies, Cocoapods and Gradle issues.

01 - List of Common Problems and Solutions

02 - Android build failed (Gradle version incompatible with Java version)

03 - Fixing Build Issues - Nuclear Option 💣

04 - Request for Feedback