In this article, we are going to learn how to implement beautiful charts in Flutter. Charts are a great visual way to represent any type of data, be it statistical data, financial data or stats. We are using charts in a lot of our Flutter app templates, and we are going to describe how we implemented them.
When it comes to data visualization or representation in any field, the first thing that comes to our mind is charts. Charts are an effective and efficient mechanism to display statistical data that will not only make it easier to read the data but also compare and contrast. It helps display data in an informative way that makes it easy for readers to comprehend the overall data.
Now that we know the importance of charts in the statistical world, we should also know that charts are very useful to display complex data in mobile applications as well. Here, we are going to learn how to add charts to a Flutter mobile app.
The Flutter mobile application development framework is booming in the current context and it will surely take the center stage as a state-of-the-art mobile app development tech in near future. In this tutorial, we are going to make use of a charts_flutter package to add different charts to our Flutter app UI. The idea is to install the library and use the different charts widget offered by it. We will also learn how to define the series list value that is to be used by chart widgets to visually represent the data.
So, let’s get started!
Setting Up the Flutter Charts Project
First, we need to create a new Flutter project. For that, make sure that the Flutter SDK and other flutter app development-related requirements are properly installed. If everything is properly set up, then in order to create a project, we can simply run the following command in the desired local directory:
- flutter create chartpost
After the project has been set up, we can navigate inside the project directory and execute the following command in the terminal to run the project in either an available emulator or an actual device:
- flutter run
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