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Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 1233

SwiftUI Environment Object alternative in Flutter

I learned SwiftUI before starting to learn flutter and I could not understand how to have something that is similar to Environment object in SwiftUI?

One solution I could think of is using singletons, But I am not sure if using singletons are a good flutter architecture solution.

For example in SwiftUI you would access data like so:

struct MyView: View {
    @EnvironmentObject DataController data

    var body: some View {
        Text(data.title)
    } 
}

And the DataController would look like this:

class DataController {
    title = "Hello!"
}

On the other hand in flutter if I will use singleton it will look like this:

class MyWidget extends StateLessWidget {
    @override
    Widget build(BuildContext context) {
        return Text(DataController.data.title);
    } 
}

And the DataController in flutter is using a singleton:

class DataController {
    static DataController data = DataController();
    title = "Hello!";
}

Is there a better way achieving this feature without passing arguments and values down the widget tree with provider package?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 480

Answers (2)

Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 1233

The best option I found is GetX package: https://pub.dev/packages/get

It is very convenient and handy, very similar to EnvironmentObject

Upvotes: 0

Phil
Phil

Reputation: 21

I'm actually trying to figure out the same problem, but I think that the provider Package might be the right choice. There are plenty of good tutorials and a complete installation guide on pub.dev

Upvotes: 2

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