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Simone Alessandria
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Simone Alessandria wrote his first program when he was 12. It was a text-based fantasy game for the Commodore 64. Now, he is a trainer (MCT), author, speaker, passionate software architect, and always a proud coder. He is the founder and owner of Softwarehouseit. His mission is to help developers achieve more through training and mentoring. He has authored several books on Flutter, including Flutter Projects, published by Packt, and web courses on Pluralsight and Udemy.
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How to use Dart streams

In this recipe’s demo, you will change the background color of a screen each second. You will create a list of five colors, and every second you will change the background color of a Container widget that fills the whole screen.

The color information will be emitted from a Stream of data. The main screen will need to listen to the Stream to get the current Color, and update the background accordingly.

While changing a color isn’t exactly something that strictly requires a Stream, the principles explained here may apply to more complex scenarios, including getting flows of data from a web service. For instance, you could write a chat app that updates the content based on what users write in real time, or an app that shows stock prices in real time.

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In order to follow along with this recipe, you can download the starting code for the project at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Flutter-Cookbook-Second-Edition/tree...

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Published in: May 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803245430

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Simone Alessandria

Simone Alessandria wrote his first program when he was 12. It was a text-based fantasy game for the Commodore 64. Now, he is a trainer (MCT), author, speaker, passionate software architect, and always a proud coder. He is the founder and owner of Softwarehouseit. His mission is to help developers achieve more through training and mentoring. He has authored several books on Flutter, including Flutter Projects, published by Packt, and web courses on Pluralsight and Udemy.
Read more about Simone Alessandria