The Chronicles of Flutter state management 10. Having many state management solutions in flutter is one thing I especially love about it. These different state management solutions provided, don’t just give us ideas or rules to manage the state in our apps based on the laid down “protocols” by the said package, but they also help us…

The Chronicles of Flutter state management 9. The one controversy about flutter is the fact that there is way “too many” state management solutions and making the choice for which to use is a challenge. There is some truth to that as well as the fact that there is a mostly overlooked advantage to this, I will…

The Chronicles of Flutter state management 8. — Statenotifiers are one of the classes of immutable state management solutions. Unlike ChangeNotifiers whose state are mutable, state notifiers prevent the direct ability to change the state value. Lets therefore create the perfect segue for state notifiers: immutability. If you have been programming for a while you should have realized…

The Chronicles of Flutter state management 7. — If you have gone through in some fashion and had some exposure to the Provider package, you would have realised how awesome it is in tackling the problem it needs to. As discussed in my previous article, Providers are built on top of the Inherited Widget class and so easily…

The Chronicles of Flutter state management 6. — If you have been following up with the progression of state management so far up to inherited widgets, here is a basic summary of what it is all about We have some state We have a way to provide it or make it available to all widgets that need it …

The Chronicles of Flutter state management 5. In our previous write-ups, we saw some different ways of managing state, where we started with stateful widgets and managed the individual state of a widget, controlling its internal workings but with respect to states that were not shared (local to only one widget), when there was a need to…

The Chronicles of Flutter state management 4 So I wanted to write about Inherited widgets today, but realised that the concept of lifting state up and callbacks might be vital for understanding better and laying the proper foundations for inherited widgets so I am starting from here. State management is kind of interesting, it brings more life…

So today we are having a look at a state management approach that is just a step above Stateful widgets. This is in fact a very good and easy to grasp method for those coming from the web (react.js) …

We saw in our previous article (Stateless widgets: check it out here) the details of what state is and what stateless widgets are. It looked fascinating and exciting but kind of limiting, look at the clock example for example, if we are to have the clock turning only when there…