Flutter Recipes: Mobile Development Solutions for iOS and Android

© Fu Cheng 2019

F. ChengFlutter Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4982-6_6

6. Form Widgets

Fu Cheng¹ 

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Sandringham, Auckland, New Zealand

 

Form controls are important in mobile apps to interact with the user. Flutter provides a set of form widgets for Material Design and iOS style. These form widgets generally have no internal state. Their appearance and behavior are purely defined by constructor parameters. With state maintained in ancestor widgets, form widgets are re-rendered to reflect to state changes. This chapter covers recipes related to basic usage of form widgets.

6.1 Collecting Text Inputs

Problem

You want to collect text inputs.

Solution

Use TextField for Material Design and CupertinoTextField for iOS style.

Discussion

To collect user ...