Managing State in Flutter
Flutter is a popular framework for creating cross-platform mobile applications from a single code base. This course will teach you the mechanisms that Flutter offers to efficiently manage application state while keeping your projects well organized.
What you'll learn
Flutter is arguably one of the best options for creating truly cross-platform mobile applications. One of the challenges that many developers face when learning Flutter, however, is how to successfully apply its reactive data model to real applications. In this course, Managing State in Flutter, you’ll learn to about the most commonly used state-management options that Flutter offers and when to apply each one. First, you’ll explore how to manage data within a single component using Stateful widgets. Next, you’ll discover your options for sharing state among a collection of widgets using Providers. Finally, you’ll learn how to manage state using several popular 3rd party libraries. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of what your state management options are and when to apply them in your own Flutter applications.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Version Information 1m
- Module Outline 1m
- Approaches to State Management 7m
- Stateless Widgets in Flutter 2m
- Demo: Static Widgets 3m
- Injecting State 2m
- Demo: Injecting State 6m
- Stateful Widgets 4m
- Demo: Stateful Widgets 7m
- Demo: Combining Stateful Widgets and Injected State 19m
- Course Overview 2m
About the author
Michael Van Sickle is an application architect in Akron, Ohio. He started his career as a mechanical engineer, designing components for the automotive industry, before changing to software engineering. He is passionate about learning new programming languages and is comfortable working in Java, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and F#. Mike also loves learning about user experience design and is taking a lead role in his company's attempt to make applications that are elegant and simple. When he i... more