Fetching Movies at App Startup
Understand how to optimize movie data fetching in Flutter by calling the API only once during app startup. Learn to use initState instead of build to reduce redundant network requests and improve app efficiency.
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Introduction
At the moment, fetchMovies() is being called from the MovieListing widget’s build method. A network call is made every time the build method is called, which can be lots of network operations if the build is triggered often.
Fetching movies at app startup
In this app, we want to fetch movies only once at the start of the application.
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