# Fortnightly A Flutter sample app based on the Material study Fortnightly (a hypothetical, online newspaper.) It showcases print-quality, custom typography, Material Theming, and text-heavy UI design and layout. For info on the Fortnightly Material Study, see: https://material.io/design/material-studies/fortnightly.html ## Goals for this sample * Help you understand how to customize and layout text. * Provide you with example code for * Text * A short app bar (the menu button top left.) * Avatar images ## Widgets / APIs * BeveledRectangleBorder * BoxConstraints on Container * CircleAvatar * ExactAssetImage * Fonts * SafeArea * Stack * SingleChildScrollView * Text * TextStyle * TextTheme ## Notice * Theming is passed as a parameter in the constructor of `MaterialApp` (`theme:`). * `SafeArea` adds padding around notches and virtual home buttons on screens that have them (like iPhone X+). Here, it protects the `ShortAppBar` from overlapping with the status bar (time) and makes sure the bottom of the newspaper article has padding beneath it if necessary. * The entire newspaper article is wrapped in a `SingleChildScrollView` widget which ensures that the entire article can be viewed no matter what the screen's size or orientation is. * The `Text` widget with text ' ¬ ' has a `TextStyle` that changes one parameter of an inherited `TextStyle` using `.apply()``. * The `Text` widget with text 'Connor Eghan' has a `TextStyle` created explicitly instead of inheriting from theming. * You can break up long strings in your source files by putting them on multiple lines. * Fonts are imported with multiple files expressing their weights (Bold, Light, Medium, Regular) but are accessed with a `FontWeight` value like `FontWeight.w800` for Merriweather-Bold.ttf. ## Questions/issues If you have a general question about developing in Flutter, the best places to go are: * [The FlutterDev Google Group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/flutter-dev) * [The Flutter Gitter channel](https://gitter.im/flutter/flutter) * [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flutter)