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ListView InDepth Review - Flutter When we need widgets stacked up one below another, we use ListView. There are four ways in which you can use a ListView. We will see each of them in use one by one. First Method : Normally Calling ListView widget. class HomePage extends StatefulWidget { @ override _HomePageState createState() => _HomePageState(); } class _HomePageState extends State<HomePage> { @ override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return Scaffold( body: ListView( children: <Widget>[ Container( color: Colors.red, child: Text( 'Element 1' ), ), Container( color: Colors.blue, child: Text( 'Element 2' ), ), Container( color: Colors.green, child: Text( 'Element 3' ), ), Container( color: Colors.orange, child: Text( 'Element 4' ), ...

Whats what and what are they really? Stateless Widgets and Stateful Widget explained. In a line, if your widget change appearance use stateful widget and if it doesn't use stateless widget that's all. We know that flutter is all about widgets and in flutter there are 2 types of widgets. Stateless Widget Stateful Widget Stateless Widget A stateless widget never changes. For example Icon, IconButton, Text and so on. Once they are built they remain the same during the lifetime of the application. There are various places where you might want to use Stateless widget such as your app Title, Images, and so on. Stateful Widget A stateful widget is something which has a state so basically that widget needs to be rebuilt whenever some event occurs. A good example would be a toggle button. Whenever you tap on the toggle button its state changes to either on or off. The appearance of the button changes and this happens because the stateful widget asks the build method to rebuild the widge...

What's the most used widget in flutter? Text Widget. We use Text Widget in flutter to render text to our application. Text widget is very commonly used as an independent widget or as a sub widget in some other widget. E.g. as a child to a RaisedButton. Here is a small code which uses almost all the properties you might use when developing flutter application for Text Widget and also shows how you can use Text.rich() for multiple formatting of the text. import 'package:flutter/material.dart' ; void main() { runApp(MyApp()); } class MyApp extends StatelessWidget { @ override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return MaterialApp( debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false , home: HomePage(), ); } } class HomePage extends StatefulWidget { @ override _HomePageState createState() => _HomePageState(); } class _HomePageState extends State<HomePage> { @ override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return Scaffold( bo...

In Flutter we primarily use widgets. There are all sorts of widgets to look out for and each providing a specific functionality. Flutter allows you to implement various things at ease with the help of widgets. A simple hello world app in flutter looks like this import 'package:flutter/material.dart' ; void main() { runApp(MyApp()); } class MyApp extends StatelessWidget { @ override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return MaterialApp( home: MyHomePage(), ); } } class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget { @ override _MyHomePageState createState() => _MyHomePageState(); } class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> { @ override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return Scaffold( body: Center( child: Text( 'Hello,World!' ), ), ); } } MaterialApp Widget allows us to use the material widgets within the application where as scaffold provides additional functionalities such as ad...

Flutter - The next big thing There are many reasons you might want to use flutter for app development, some of the reasons why you might use flutter are listed below. Allows you to make beautiful apps Extremely easy to learn Fast Development and Great Community Support Create Native apps for IOS and Android Lots of API Support at  pub.dev Customise your widgets. Can be used for Web apps and Desktop Apps too! And the most important one, Maintain one codebase. If you are still not convinced to use flutter check out what people have to say about flutter Quora Medium - 1 Medium - 2 All in all, Flutter is the next big thing. If you are into any form of application development you should at least try using flutter. In this blog we will be teaching basics of flutter app development from start to finish. So stay tuned.