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🎓 Course: Flutter Mobile App Development 01 Introduction to Mobile App Development & Flutter 👨‍🏫 Instructor: Dr. Abbas Malik 🏛 University: Prince Sultan University – College of Computer & Information Sciences 💡 Perfect for beginners starting their journey in mobile development with Flutter! Welcome to the first lecture of Flutter Mobile App Development! In this session, Dr. Abbas Malik introduces the exciting world of mobile app development and walks you through the fundamentals of Flutter, Google's powerful UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase in Dart programming language. 🔹 Topics Covered: • Course overview, and instructor intro • Evolution of mobile devices and portable technology • Mobile operating systems and development platforms • Introduction to Flutter: why it’s fast, productive, and flexible • Setting up your development environment (Git, VS Code, Android Studio, Flutter SDK) • Understanding Flutter project structure and key files • Building and running your first Flutter app 🔹 Key Takeaways: • Understand the impact of mobile technology on daily life and business • Learn how Flutter enables cross-platform development with high performance • Get hands-on with Flutter’s widget-based architecture and hot reload feature • Explore the anatomy of a Flutter project (pubspec.yaml, main.dart, platform folders) 🔹 Course GitHub Repository: 📂 All course materials, code examples, and projects: https://github.com/mgmalik/flutterappdev 🔹 Resources & Tools: • Flutter Official Site: https://flutter.dev/ Here are links to download the necessary tools: • Flutter Dev Site: https://flutter.dev/ • Download VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/download • Download GIT: https://git-scm.com/install/ • Download Android Studio: https://developer.android.com/studio • Download Flutter: https://docs.flutter.dev/install/manual 📂 Project Files Explained: • main.dart – Entry point of your app • pubspec.yaml – Manifest for dependencies and metadata • Platform-specific folders (android, ios, web, etc.) #Flutter #MobileDevelopment #CrossPlatform #Dart #FlutterTutorial #AppDevelopment #PSU #IS487 #Programming #Coding #TechEducation