What is listenable provider in Flutter?

ListenableProvider is the specific provider used for listenable objects . It will listen, then ask widgets depending on it and affected by the state change to rebuild any time the listener is called. ChangeNotifierProvider is similar to ListenableProvider but for ChangeNotifier objects, and calls ChangeNotifier.

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How does provider in Flutter work?

It’s the Element’s responsibility to tell Flutter that it has changed, and it needs to be repainted. This is done this via a method called markNeedsBuild , which is called internally . This matters to us (provider users) because all objects in Provider are widgets (and elements). They know how to interface with Flutter.

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Why do we use providers?

We use Provider in order to pass the store as an attribute . By passing the store as an attribute in the Provider component, we are avoiding having to store the store as props. As we know, applications can be very complex and extensive, thus having many React components.

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