How do I set up 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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How does Flutter provider work?

Provider is built using widgets. It literally creates new widget subclasses, allowing you to use all the objects in provider as if they’re just part of Flutter . This also means that provider is not cross platform. (By cross platform, I mean outside of a Flutter project.

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Should I use provider in Flutter?

One of the main reasons to prefer Provider over Statefulwidget s is that, using Provider , you will rebuild only the widgets that needs that value (the Consumers ) while the other will not be rebuilt . Instead when you call setState the whole build function of the widget will be called.

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