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Flutter App life cycle

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Flutter App life cycle

Sep 1

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Basically when we are writing a code for any Native applications, We will look for a life cycle events to handle some specific scenarios. Its like handling Thanos gauntlet snap to blip 😇😇

Flutter comes with life cycle events to handle app life cycle for android & ios.

Let's see the code.

To consume the life cycle event, we need to have Stateful widget with WidgetsBindingObserver mixin.

class _HomePageState 
extends State<HomePage> 
with WidgetsBindingObserver {
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The mixin WidgetsBindingObserver provides an override didChangeAppLifecycleState where we will notified for certain app life cycle state changes.

  @override
  void didChangeAppLifecycleState(AppLifecycleState state) {
    switch (state) {
      case AppLifecycleState.resumed:
        print('app resumed');
        break;
      case AppLifecycleState.paused:
        print('app paused');
        break;
      case AppLifecycleState.inactive:
        print('app inactive');
        break;
      case AppLifecycleState.detached:
      default:
        print('app detached');
        break;
    }
  }
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Finally to get work all these stuff, we need to inform or observe the app life cycle changes using

@override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    WidgetsBinding.instance!.addObserver(this);
  }
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Ofcourse dont forget to remove observer on dispose

@override
  void dispose() {
    super.dispose();
    WidgetsBinding.instance!.removeObserver(this);
  }
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That's it, we can now handle the app as per the app lifecycle.

Happy Fluttering 😇😇


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