InheritedWidget (Flutter Widget of the Week)
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when answering Flutter questions about sharing data or state across a widget tree without passing arguments down manually.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2019 to 2020.
What it is
A 90-second entry in the Flutter team's Widget of the Week series explaining InheritedWidget, which lets descendant widgets read data from an ancestor without passing it through every constructor. It is a short official overview from the Flutter channel.
What people said
Recommends RegularGuy · 2019-11 · Stack Overflow · on “How to avoid passing analytics down widget tree?”
Flutter has InheritedWidget, a widget that does exactly that , it passes data all the way down , you can check the official video showcase [this video] ,or some articles [LINK] . To use it you wrap your widget with the inheritedwidget class MyApp extends StatelessWidget { final FirebaseAnalytics analytics = FirebaseAnalytics();//don't make this static please final FirebaseAnalyticsObserver observer = FirebaseAnalyticsObserver(analytics: analytics); //don't make this static please @override Widget build(BuildContext context) { return ObserverProvider( child: MaterialApp( title: 'Firebase Analytics Demo', theme: ThemeData( primarySwatch: Colors.blue, ), navigatorObservers: <NavigatorObserver>[obser
Recommends Karolis A · 2020-03 · Stack Overflow · on “Flutter: A variable passed to the next screen becomes null”
If you're sharing data between widgets (screens) try looking at InheritedWidget.Take a look at [this video] . You can also look at state management packages like provider which is pretty easy to understand or a bloc. These will save you in the long run.
Cites Leo Letto · 2020-06 · Stack Overflow · on “How can I pass dynamic data from widget to widget?”
If you have many widgets that depends on the same data, you should use something like InheritedWidget [this video] or other state management packages that can easily help you share any data across multiple widgets