Course curriculum

Session 01

Flutter Architecture & Foundations

• Introduction to Flutter framework and its advantages over native development
• rendering pipeline including Skia and Impeller engines
• compilation strategies (JIT vs AOT)
• graphics APIs (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal)
• Dart language fundamentals
• Flutter project structure and widget composition
• understanding the widget, element, and render object trees
• coordinate systems
• Material Design components including MaterialApp, Scaffold, and Container
• flex layouts with Row, Column, and Expanded widgets.

Assignment
Personal information card UI

Session 02

Object-Oriented Programming & State Management

• Core OOP concepts including classes, objects, and inheritance in Dart
• distinction between StatelessWidget and StatefulWidget
• managing application state with setState()
• hot reload vs hot restart development workflow
• package management with pubspec.yaml
• pseudo-random number generation using dart:math library.

Assignment
Interactive coin flipper application

Session 03

Navigation & Dynamic Lists

• Stack data structure and its application in navigation
• Navigator API for multi-screen applications
• understanding BuildContext and context propagation
• screen transitions with Navigator.push() and pop()
• Dart list data structures
• implementing scrollable lists with ListView
• performance optimization through ListView.builder for lazy rendering
• visual separators with ListView.separated
• widget extraction and composition patterns.

Assignment
Multi-screen game interface

Session 04

Advanced Layouts & UI/UX Design Principles

• Grid-based layouts with GridView, GridView.builder, and GridView.count
• foundational UI/UX principles including the 8-point grid system
• anti-aliasing for visual clarity
• fat finger rule for touch targets
• safe area handling for notched displays
• typographic scale hierarchy
• 60/30/10 color distribution rule
• effective use of whitespace
• integrating external packages from pub.dev
• Google Fonts package integration
• semantic versioning conventions
• recommended typography choices
• implicit animations with AnimatedContainer
• explicit animations with AnimationController
• Dart mixins and SingleTickerProviderStateMixin.

Assignment
Spotify home screen clone

Session 05

Network Programming & Asynchronous Operations

• Client-server architecture fundamentals
• Internet protocols and HTTP specification (RFC)
• request-response paradigm
• HTTP/1.1 protocol analysis
• domain name system and IP addressing (IPv4/IPv6)
• port allocation and network sockets
• local server deployment demonstration
• RESTful API design principles
• HTTP methods and status codes
• http package for network requests
• browser developer tools for debugging
• concurrency with threads
• Future-based asynchronous programming
• async/await syntax
• Dart event loop mechanics
• FutureBuilder for reactive UI.

Assignment
Integration with dummyjson.com API

Session 06

User Input & Data Persistence

• Text input with TextField widgets
• managing input with TextEditingController
• form validation using TextFormField
• focus management with FocusNode
• form state management with Form and GlobalKey
• computer memory hierarchy
• data persistence strategies
• implementing local storage with shared_preferences package.

Assignment
To-do application with persistent storage

Session 07

Theming & Cloud Backend Services

• Application-wide theming with ThemeData
• color scheme generation from seed colors
• implementing light and dark mode with persistent user preference
• Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platforms
• comparison of BaaS vs traditional servers
• vertical and horizontal scaling architectures
• Cloud Firestore NoSQL database
• document-oriented data models
• Firebase security rules
• Firebase project setup and CLI tools
• Firestore read and write operations.

Assignment
Anonymous confession box with cloud storage

Session 08

Real-time Communication & Authentication

• WebSocket protocol fundamentals
• HTTP 101 Switching Protocols
• WebSocket bidirectional communication architecture
• Dart Streams for reactive programming
• StreamBuilder for real-time UI updates
• comparing stateless HTTP vs stateful WebSockets
• authentication mechanisms and JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
• Firebase Authentication integration
• user registration and login flows.

Assignment
Authentication system with login, signup, and logout

Session 09

Integrated Application Development

• Live coding session building anonymous confession application
• advanced concepts including cryptographic hashing for security
• dropdown widgets and form controls
• integrating previously learned concepts into cohesive application architecture.

Session 10

Monetization & Version Control

• In-app purchases, subscriptions, and ad-supported revenue models
• advertising identifiers (GAID/IDFA)
• supply-side platforms (SSP) and demand-side platforms (DSP)
• ad exchange auctions (first-price vs Vickrey)
• advertisement formats including banner, interstitial, and rewarded ads
• Android manifest and iOS info.plist configuration
• Android test ad unit IDs
• Google Mobile Ads SDK integration
• banner ad implementation
• version control fundamentals
• Git and GitHub workflows
• commit message conventions
• collaboration patterns
• personal access tokens
• branching strategies
• forking and pull requests
• contributing to open-source projects.

Session 11

Platform Integration & Deep Linking

• Knowledge transfer equation (K = i × c)
• social sharing with share_plus package
• platform channels and method codecs for native integration
• URL launching across platforms
• deep linking architecture
• custom URI schemes
• app links package
• Android intent filters
• deep link configuration and testing workflows.

Session 12

Large Language Models & API Integration

• Introduction to large language models (LLMs)
• recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and transformer architectures
• vector embeddings and semantic representations
• GPU types and CUDA/Tensor cores
• numerical precision formats (FP16, INT8)
• model inference pipelines
• memory bandwidth considerations
• quantization techniques for model compression
• tokenization strategies
• running models locally with Ollama
• Groq Language Processing Units (LPUs)
• HTTP POST requests
• API testing with cURL and Postman.

Assignment
Gemini API integration for conversational AI

Session 13

Advanced Concurrency & Streaming

• Dart Streams and async generators
• streaming responses from Groq API
• concurrency vs parallelism
• race conditions and deadlocks
• Isolates and the actor model for parallel computation
• preventing UI thread blocking during heavy computation
• Foundation library's compute() function
• inter-isolate communication with SendPort and ReceivePort
• implementing compute-intensive tasks in isolates.

Session 14

Deployment & Production Optimization

• Application icon generation with flutter_launcher_icons
• development dependencies vs runtime dependencies
• splash screen implementation with flutter_native_splash
• modifying application display names
• environment variable management with .env files and flutter_dotenv
• code optimization through tree shaking and R8 compiler
• code obfuscation for intellectual property protection
• building Android APK and AAB (Android App Bundle) formats
• ABI splitting for size optimization
• introduction to Gradle build system
• Android package name modification
• Play App Signing infrastructure
• cryptographic key generation and application signing for distribution.