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Flutter Cookbook

You're reading from   Flutter Cookbook Over 100 proven techniques and solutions for app development with Flutter 2.2 and Dart

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838823382
Length 646 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Simone Alessandria Simone Alessandria
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Flutter 2. Dart: A Language You Already Know FREE CHAPTER 3. Introduction to Widgets 4. Mastering Layout and Taming the Widget Tree 5. Adding Interactivity and Navigation to Your App 6. Basic State Management 7. The Future is Now: Introduction to Asynchronous Programming 8. Data Persistence and Communicating with the Internet 9. Advanced State Management with Streams 10. Using Flutter Packages 11. Adding Animations to Your App 12. Using Firebase 13. Machine Learning with Firebase ML Kit 14. Distributing Your Mobile App 15. Flutter Web and Desktop 16. About Packt

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StatefulWidgets are made up of two classes: the widget and the state. The widget part of StatefulWidget really doesn't do much, and all the properties that you store in it must be final; otherwise, you will get a compile error.


All widgets, whether they are stateless or stateful, are still immutable. In Stateful widgets, the state can change.

What doesn't have to be immutable is the State object. The State object takes over the build responsibilities from the widget. States can also be marked as dirty, which is what will cause them to repaint on the next frame. Take a close look at this line:

setState(() {
++seconds;
});

The setState function tells Flutter that a widget needs to be repainted. In this specific example, we are incrementing the seconds property by one, which means that when the build function is called again, it will replace the Text widget with different content. 


Each time you call setState...
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