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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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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