Chapter 52 — State Management: From setState to Provider

Level: intermediate Estimated time: 10 h Prerequisites: chapters 43 to 51 (installation, widgets, setState, layouts, text, lists, forms, navigation, themes); chapters 08 to 11, 14, 15, and 16 of PART 1A (OOP, functional collections, asynchronous programming, project organization) What you will be able to do by the end: distinguish ephemeral state from app state, understand the InheritedWidget mechanism that all of Flutter relies on, write a state class with ChangeNotifier, share it across multiple screens with the provider package, and make an informed choice among the major solutions on the market.

52.0 — Chapter Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to: