MoreResources.md

Android Frontend

For this follow the 3 classes we took under Computer Club during the month of May: here

Flutter Frontend

Best way to start is to head on to https://flutter.dev/ and press the ‘Get Started’ button. The official docs of Flutter are very great for learning.

Flutter Courses:

• Flutter: Flutter Tutorial for Beginners using Dart: Develop Android and iOS mobile app - YouTube
• Dart: Dart Tutorial for Beginners: Basics and Fundamentals for Flutter - YouTube
• Build App with Flutter SDK from scratch - YouTube
• Flutter & Firebase App Build - YouTube
• E-commerce App using flutter - YouTube

Brief overview on how to make Backend (BE) with Android Frontend (FE)

REST APIs can be made using different languages and frameworks. Popular frameworks are as follows

• ExpressJs (NodeJS)
• Flask/Django (Python)

BE with ExpressJS

Basics

• Quick 1 hour tutorial on NodeJs
• ExpressJs

ORMs (Object–relational mapping)

For making database operations in backend, ORMs are generally used which makes DB operations easier to handle.

Widely used ORMs are as follows

• SequelizeJS for SQL DB
• Mongoose for MongoDB

Using REST APIs in Android FE

REST APIs calls can be convinietly handled using Retrofit library. Quick overview of Retrofit

Note: It is highly recommended to refer the official documentation of each library/framework which has to be used both in FE and BE, video/third party resources can be referred in case of roadblocks and bugs