Why Adaptive and Responsive UI Matters
Explore the importance of designing Flutter applications with adaptive and responsive UI to handle diverse device types and screen sizes. Understand how responsiveness adjusts UI layout to different pixel dimensions and orientations, while adaptiveness modifies app functionality based on device capabilities. This lesson prepares you to create scalable Flutter apps that deliver optimal user experiences across smartphones, tablets, desktops, and web browsers.
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When we code our Flutter application on a specific class of devices, like smartphones, it is customary to design the user interface (UI) based on that particular class. So what happens when our tailored application runs on another type of device?
For instance, consider the following cases:
- Users want to download the application on a tablet.
- We want to release a desktop version of the application.
- Our client asks us to make a web version of the application.
Is the design still valid?
Think about how many different screens a Flutter application could run on. Phones, tablets, web browsers, desktops with or without a touchscreen, foldable devices, and in the future, the list could expand to watches and car media systems.
How can we ensure a good user experience on all these devices? We could have different screens and widgets for each device and use a ...