Tarek AlabdAcademy
IntermediateGoogle Developer Expert · Flutter & Dart

Master REST APIs in Flutter —
and build a News app that works online and off.

Connect your Flutter apps to the live web. In this course you'll learn the full request-response cycle of REST APIs, work with HTTP, Dio and Retrofit, handle pagination and status codes, and use Postman to debug your endpoints — then build a complete News app with live headlines, article details and full-text search. The final module adds offline favorites with Shared Preferences and Hive, so users can save articles to read later even without internet.

4.9(509 ratings)Updated May 2026
  • ~7hours
  • 1production apps
  • 28lessons
  • 3sections

Sound familiar?

Why your apps are cut off from the web.

Real apps live on live data. If yours only run on hardcoded content, these are the skills standing between you and the real web.

  • Your apps are isolated from the internet

    All your data is hardcoded. No live content, nothing that updates, no connection to any real web API. An app disconnected from the world.

  • REST APIs feel like a puzzle

    Request, response, status codes, JSON — you hear the terms but don't know how to actually fetch data, or the difference between HTTP, Dio and Retrofit.

  • Your app crashes at the first network hiccup

    A slow connection or a server error and everything breaks — no loading state, no error handling, no saved data to read later offline.

Is this for you?

Who this course is for.

This is for you if…

  • You build Flutter UI and want to connect it to real data from the web.
  • You want to master REST APIs and handle errors and loading states professionally.
  • You want your app to work online and offline and save data for the user.

This is NOT for you if…

  • You can't build Flutter UI yet — start with the UI basics first.
  • You already master REST APIs, Dio and local storage in real projects.
  • You work only with Firebase or Supabase and don't need traditional APIs.

1 production app

What you'll build.

Not toy apps — every project is production-grade code you can deploy to the App Store, put on your CV, and demo at interviews.

  • The News App

    A complete News app with live API-driven headlines, a Carousel Slider of top stories, an article details page, full-text search with paginated results, and offline favorites — backed by both Shared Preferences and Hive so you've seen both patterns. The API skills transfer to any REST API, so the same code skeleton works for weather, social feeds, e-commerce, or your client's next project.

    • Flutter
    • REST API
    • Dio
    • Retrofit
    • Hive
    • Shared Preferences

Proof it works

Where graduates are now.

2,400+ enrolled. These are the outcomes that matter — new roles, promotions, and first freelance clients.

  • Landed first Flutter role 3 months after finishing

    I went from zero production experience to passing the senior Flutter technical interview. The architecture section alone changed how I think about code.

    Ahmed Hassan

    Vodafone Egypt

  • Junior → mid-level mobile developer in 8 months

    The state management course cleared up two years of confusion in a single weekend. I shipped my first production feature the week after.

    Sara El-Sayed

    Careem

  • Freelance Flutter developer — first client in 6 weeks

    I finished the diploma and within six weeks had my first paid Flutter project. Real apps and real architecture made the difference in client calls.

    Omar Mostafa

    Independent contractor

Where graduates work now

  • Vodafone Egypt
  • Careem
  • Talabat
  • STC
  • Jahez
  • Aramex
  • Etisalat
  • Freelance

Curriculum

Course content.

3 sections30 lessons~7h total length2 free preview lessons
    • What is an API?Preview
    • The full guide to API request components
    • Solutions used in API integration — HTTP & Dio
    • Planning the News App & APIsPreview
    • Initiating the News App project & architecture
    • Quick look at API documentation
    • Get Top Headlines API call with Dio
    • Status codes for API responses
    • Intro to the pagination concept
    • Using Postman with APIs

Learning outcomes

What you'll learn.

By the end your apps will live on real, up-to-date data — online and offline — like every app on your phone.

  • Fetch live data from any REST API into your Flutter app
  • Build a complete News app powered by a real web API
  • Work with HTTP and Dio, and parse JSON into Dart models
  • Handle loading states, errors, and slow connections gracefully
  • Save data locally with Shared Preferences and Hive for offline use
  • Connect your apps to the real web instead of hardcoded data

Your instructor

Meet Tarek Alabd.

Tarek Alabd, instructor
Google Developer Expert · Flutter & Dart

Google Developer Expert for Flutter & Dart. I've taught over 1 million students online and 4,000+ in person — and I built this diploma after realising most Flutter courses teach widgets, not engineering.

Twelve years building production apps — not demos. Six of them are in the diploma. You build them too.

  • 12+
    Years experience
  • 6+
    Production apps
  • 4K+
    In-person students
Tarek Alabd · Google Developer Expert for Flutter & Dart

Tarek Alabd · Google Developer Expert for Flutter & Dart

Why I built this

The honest origin story.

I wasn't a GDE when I started teaching. I was a developer with a habit of explaining things — to colleagues, to friends, eventually to a camera. The early videos were rough. The audience was small. But the questions people asked told me something important: the problem wasn't that people couldn't learn Flutter. It was that the material they had didn't teach them how engineers actually think.

After four thousand in-person students — real classrooms, real feedback, real frustration — I knew exactly where people got stuck. Not on widgets. On architecture. On state. On the gap between "I finished the tutorial" and "I can build something real." The diploma exists to close that gap.

I didn't build the diploma to teach Flutter syntax. I built it to teach how production engineers think.

Tarek Alabd, GDE Flutter & Dart

Testimonials

What developers say.

4.9from 500+ student reviews
  • Ahmad

    السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته، حاب أشكر الأستاذ على المجهود الرائع في دورة Flutter وDart. الكورس كان شامل ومتكامل، وغطى كل شيء من الأساسيات إلى المواضيع المتقدمة بشكل سلس وواضح. تعلمت Dart Basics، Flutter Basics، إدارة الحالة، Git & GitHub، تصميم تطبيقات عملية، واستخدام Firebase في ربط التطبيقات. أيضًا تعلمت التعامل مع HTTP Requests، Local Databases، إضافة Animations، وميزات الجهاز، إلى جانب بناء تطبيقات e-commerce، والتعامل مع واجهات المستخدم بشكل احترافي. الكورس فعلاً متكامل لكل المستويات، ويوفر تجربة تعليمية غنية وممتعة. أنصح أي شخص حاب يطور مهاراته في البرمجة أو يدخل مجال تطوير التطبيقات إنه يشترك في الكورس، لأنه فعلاً يستحق.

  • Mohamed Samir Ibrahim Mostafa

    This course is an amazing Flutter course! The explanation are clear. and the example are practical. I really liked how the instructor responded to question in Q&A section. Overall, I highly recommend this course to anyone.

  • Wael

    أهم ما فى الكورسات المدفوعة التواصل بين المحاضر والطلبة والتواصل بين الباشمهندس طارق العبد اكثر من ممتاز يستمع للجميع ويجيب على التساؤلات بالتفصيل ويعطى نصائح تختصر الوقت على الدارسين .

  • Abdallah

    One of the best courses I have ever shared in my life in terms of meeting and simplifying information. Thank you very much to engineer Tariq Al-Abdul for this great effort. ❤️❤️

  • Khaleel

    It's really powerful course and amazing developer with easy explanations, anyone can easily understanding and start with flutter. I highly recommend ! Thank You!!!

  • Abdulateef

    كورس ممتاز جدا يشرح بسلاسة و يطابق افكار الجميع يشرح متطلبات سوق العمل و كيف تضع خطة لاستلام مشروع من العميل و انصح الاشخاص الذين يريدون تعلم مجال flutter بالاشتراك

  • Fatma

    The instructor's brilliantly simple method of illustrating the concept has me feeling genuinely excited about the course content

  • Odama

    very good course with excellent teacher, he knows what he is doing also how to deliver the information to the student,

  • Ahmed

    ربنا يبارك فيك يا بشمهندس ويكرمك دنيا و آخرة يا رب. دورة مذهلة و فوق التوقعات و الجوده ممتازة و المحتوى ممتاز.

  • عبدالعزيز اشرف مصطفي

    جزاك الله خيرا يابشمهندس .. الكورس فاق التوقعات اسلوب شرح رائع ومنظم ..وجودة فيديوهات جميله جدا

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  • Mohamed

    great intro and great explanation

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  • Build a complete News app powered by a real web API
  • Work with HTTP and Dio, and parse JSON into Dart models
  • Handle loading states, errors, and slow connections gracefully
  • Save data locally with Shared Preferences and Hive for offline use
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