What does provider do in Flutter?

The answer is simple, and the power of the Provider package is in its simplicity: Providers allow to not only expose a value, but also create/listen/dispose it . When you place a Provider widget in your widget tree all the Childs of the Provider will have access to the values exposed by it.19 May 2021

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How do you use a provider in Flutter?

The generics (values inside <> brackets) tell Flutter what type of provider to look for. Then Flutter goes up through the widget tree until it finds the provided value. If the value isn’t provided anywhere then an exception is thrown. Finally, once you’ve got the provider, you can call any method on it.12 Haz 2020

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What is future provider in Flutter?

As the name suggests, FutureProvider provides a Future value that might not be ready when the widget that gets the value is already ready to use . And that has a lot to do with Future class in Flutter. That’s a big difference with other providers. Since, the provided value might take time to appear, it must not be null.

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