Widget Lifecycle
Explore the lifecycle of stateful widgets in Flutter to understand how methods like initState, build, didChangeDependencies, and dispose work together. Learn how Flutter widgets manage state and UI updates through these lifecycle stages to build responsive mobile apps.
In the case of stateless widgets, the UI is built once. But the stateful widget maintains data as well as the state inside it and builds itself multiple times. So it goes through its own lifecycle, which we are going to learn about in this lesson.
The createState() method
The createState() method must be overridden when a Dart class extends a StatefulWidget.
The initState() method
When a stateful widget is born and gets attached to the widget ...