Everything expands to screenwidth inside a Listview. Can I change that?

You can use Align widget to align it’s child inside it’s parent. Simply wrap your list nodes (Card instances) inside a Align. import ‘package:flutter/material.dart’; //import ‘../../Library/Library.dart’; //import ‘../../Ui/ChatMessage.dart’; void main() { runApp( new MaterialApp( home: new ChatScreen(), ), ); } class ChatScreen extends StatefulWidget { @override State<StatefulWidget> createState() { return new ChatScreenState(); } } class … Read more

Flutter Provider setState() or markNeedsBuild() called during build

You are calling fetchEvents from within your build code for the root widget. Within fetchEvents, you call notifyListeners, which, among other things, calls setState on widgets that are listening to the event provider. This is a problem because you cannot call setState on a widget when the widget is in the middle of rebuilding. Now … Read more

Importance of Calling SetState inside initState

The setState() method notifies the framework that the internal state of the Stateful widget has changed. Calling this method is what triggers the widget to rebuild with the latest state values, so it is not necessary to call it inside the initState() lifecycle method since it is only called once when the widget is inserted … Read more

Open flutter dialog after navigation

You can call the dialog from inside ‘initState()’ dalaying its appearance after the first frame has been drawn. @override void initState() { super.initState(); WidgetsBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) async { await showDialog<String>( context: context, builder: (BuildContext context) => new AlertDialog( title: new Text(“title”), content: new Text(“Message”), actions: <Widget>[ new FlatButton( child: new Text(“OK”), onPressed: () { Navigator.of(context).pop(); }, ), … Read more