Calling a method in Statelesswidget for splash screen? - flutter

Question

I am building a Weather app for learning and at the beginning of app I want to get users location. Splash screen is stateless widget and don't do anything. When the locations is available I want to push to the another screen.
I am able to do it but is this a correct way to do(Please review below code)?.
Let me know any other solutions.
I call the getLocation method before returning the widget from build method. Is this the ideal way of doing? Because this screen state won't be updating.
class LaunchScreen extends StatelessWidget {
static const String id = 'launch_screen';
void getLocation(BuildContext context) async {
LocationData location = await LocationService().getCurrentLocation();
if (location != null) {
// Go to home
print(location.latitude);
print(location.longitude);
} else {
// Error fetching location
}
}
#override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
getLocation(context);
return Scaffold(
body: Column(
mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
children: [
Expanded(
child: Container(),
),
Center(
child: Image(
image: AssetImage('images/launch_screen/app_logo.png'),
),
),
SizedBox(
height: 8,
),
Center(
child: Shimmer.fromColors(
baseColor: Colors.white.withOpacity(0.6),
highlightColor: Colors.white,
child: Text(
'Forecasts',
style: GoogleFonts.montserratAlternates(
textStyle:
TextStyle(fontSize: 60, fontWeight: FontWeight.w300),
color: Colors.white.withOpacity(0.6)),
),
),
),
Expanded(
child: Container(),
),
Row(
mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
children: [
Text(
'Made with ❤️ ',
style: TextStyle(
fontSize: 12,
fontWeight: FontWeight.w300,
color: Colors.white.withOpacity(0.5)),
),
Text(
'Parth Adroja',
style: TextStyle(
fontSize: 12,
fontWeight: FontWeight.w500,
color: Colors.white.withOpacity(0.5)),
),
],
),
SizedBox(
height: 20,
)
],
),
);
}
}

Answer 1

You can use the FutureBuilder to do it.
like:
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return FutureBuilder(
initialData: null,
future: getLocation(),
builder: (context, snap){
if(snap.hasData){
return FullDataWidget(snap.data);
}else{
return SplashScreen();
}
},
);
}