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Dynamic URLs

Explore how to implement dynamic URL routing in Flutter apps using GetX. Learn to define and navigate routes with parameters to create adaptable, data-driven pages. Practice passing values through URLs and retrieving them to build responsive user interfaces that reflect URL changes in real time.

Overview

The best feature of Flutter is that it is platform agnostic. We can run Flutter apps on any platform. However, each platform has some quirks. For example, the long URL strings on websites are pretty tricky to implement in a Flutter web app.

https://www.educative.io/profile?user=Aachman&author=yes
Dynamic URL syntax example

GetX offers a straightforward method to use URL syntax for navigation in Flutter apps. Not only the parameters appear in the address bar, they can be retrieved in the routes to create dynamic widgets.

Dynamic named routes

We know how we can define named routes. They look something like this:

Dart
GetPage(name: '/profile', page: () => ProfilePage()),

The code above shows a static named route. A static named route refers to the one with a fixed path, which in this case is '/profile'. This can be limiting when we want to create dynamic routes based on data. For example, navigating to a user’s profile page based on their name. In this case, the path needs to contain the user’s name. But we cannot define all those paths manually because there can be any number of users.

This is when dynamic named routes come into the picture. Dynamic named routes ...