HTTP Requests in Flutter

Dynamic mobile applications save and load user data and other information from remote servers. It is important to understand how to make network requests in Flutter to fetch data from an API and display it in your app.

Project - Quotes API

Update the quotes list UI you built on day 12 to fetch quotes from an API instead of using a static list of quotes.

• Get quotes from this endpoint

By the end of this day, you should have a basic understanding of how to make network requests in Flutter and how to work with the http package.

Tips

• Review the basics of Dart programming from Day 1-9.
• Learn how to make network requests in Flutter using the http package. This package allows you to easily make HTTP requests to an API and receive data in JSON format.
• Experiment with different types of requests, such as GET and POST requests, and learn how to handle errors and exceptions.
• You can use JSON Placeholder API to practice making different requests
• You should practice by building more projects
• You can use Free Public APIs for building many interesting applications

Resources

• Flutter http package documentation
• Beginners guide to http package
• Fetch Data fron Internet
• Working with Rest API in Flutter

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