Simple Interface
Explore building a simple Flutter app interface that fetches movie data from the TMDB API and displays the raw JSON in a scrollable format. Understand how to use StatefulWidget to update UI dynamically when data is loaded, and get hands-on experience running the app in an Android emulator.
We'll cover the following...
We’ll learn to print movie data fetched from the TMDB API on the app’s main screen as is.
Building an interface
Let’s start building the interface to render data returned from API.
App’s entry point
MoviesApp is the entry point for runApp(). It’s a StatelessWidget.
void main() => runApp(MoviesApp());
The MoviesApp widget
The MoviesApp is a MaterialApp. We’ll use a separate widget to build the listing part of the app.
Let’s name this widget as MovieListing. The MovieListing widget needs to be a StatefulWidget because we need to update listings based on the data received from the API/server.
We’ll use this widget as the ...