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Flutter Cookbook, Second Edition - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245430
Pages 712 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Simone Alessandria Simone Alessandria
Profile icon Simone Alessandria

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Flutter 2. Creating Your First Flutter App 3. Dart: A Language You Already Know 4. Introduction to Widgets 5. Mastering Layout and Taming the Widget Tree 6. Adding Interactivity and Navigation to Your App 7. Basic State Management 8. The Future is Now: Introduction to Asynchronous Programming 9. Data Persistence and Communicating with the Internet 10. Advanced State Management with Streams 11. Using Flutter Packages 12. Adding Animations to Your App 13. Using Firebase 14. Firebase Machine Learning 15. Flutter Web and Desktop 16. Distributing Your Mobile App 17. Other Books You May Enjoy
18. Index

Advanced State Management with Streams

In Dart and Flutter, futures and streams are the main tools to deal with asynchronous programming.

While Future represents a single value that will be delivered at a later time in the future, Stream is a set (sequence) of values (0 or more) that can be delivered asynchronously, at any time. Basically, it is a flow of continuous data.

In order to get data from a stream, you subscribe (or listen) to it. Each time some data is emitted, you can receive and manipulate it as required by the logic of your app.

By default, each stream allows only a single subscription, but you will also see how to enable multiple subscriptions.

This chapter focuses on several use cases of streams in a Flutter app. You will see streams used in different scenarios, and how to read and write data to streams, build user interfaces based on streams, and use the BLoC state management pattern.

Like futures, streams can generate data or errors...

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