Chapter 1: States and State Management Overview

This chapter is an introduction to the core concepts of states and state management in Flutter. You will learn the basic important concepts of a state in Flutter and how it affects your application in general. You will also learn about state management, what it is, why it is necessary, and the advantages of using it in your application.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

• What is a state?
• Why is studying states important?
• What is state management?
• Why do we need state management?
• Choosing the best state management technique

This chapter is going to show you why you need to study state management in order to build better, stable, and scalable Flutter applications. By the end of this chapter you will have a grasp of the following:

• The concepts of states and state management in Flutter
• The importance of studying and applying state management in Flutter
• How state and state management are interrelated to each other