I understand the "android:initialLayout" element within the xml folder for defining the default layout of an Android homescreen widget. I want to be able to display a "loading your information" on my widget while I am waiting for data...how do I do this. I have tried to display an error message on my widget if there is no connectivity, but it doesn't get past the "android:initialLayout" , so showing code I believe is irrelevant. Correct me if I am wrong please...don't bash me. Any help greatly appreciated!
Yes, the initialLayout is so that your widget displays something before Android has had a chance to call your widget-updating code. This is a great place to put a "Loading..." message.
Once your onUpdate method is called in your widget, that is your chance to get your data. If you have a connectivity problem at that point, you can display an error message at that point. Otherwise, if you successfully get your data, then you can draw you widget with the data.
I'm not sure if I've answered your question, so apologies if I have not. Please clarify a bit more if I have not. The main questions I have are:
Is Android calling your onUpdate function? Log statements can be really helpful for this.
Are you trying to load your data in the background, such as a separate Service, and then reading the results in the widget? Or are you loading the data inside the widget?
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I have a sample code which detects a hovering stylus over a widget.
The code is from this Stackoverflow Quesion.
In short. It binds using GestureBinding.instance?.pointerRouter.addGlobalRoute and checks in the handler if the event is of type stylus.
This gets triggered when the stylus is hovering over the screen (no contact).
It works great on Widgets like Text(), Container() etc.
Question:
I want to use this functionality on a different Widget, the Flutter InAppWebView but the event will not get triggered until the pen has contact with the surface. Even on the Container it does not work, if the child is the InAppWebView.
I think this problem will occur on other Widgets too.
I tried the Listener, AbsorbPointer and IgnorePointer.
Update 1:
I can see the following in the debug output when I start hovering the stylus over the screen.
I/ViewRootImpl(23491): updatePointerIcon pointerType = 20001, calling pid = 23491
D/InputManager(23491): setPointerIconType iconId = 20001, callingPid = 23491
Update 2:
The InAppWebView has an option useHybridComposition which is false by default. Setting it to true solves the issue. But the WebView is becoming very slow.
HERE is a repository that shows the problem.
Thanks!
EDIT
As desribed below, this question has two solutions.
Set useHybridComposition to true. For slowness, maybe raise an issue to that repo.
Hook at android/ios level instead of Flutter level, and forward events back to Flutter.
The debugging method maybe like this: Firstly, print out the pointer events in methods like your _handleEvent. Then you will know whether the pointer event just occur, or they even do not occur.
Secondly, try what widgets are OK and what are not. Text is OK, WebView is not. Then is Container OK? Is InkWell OK? Is IconButton OK? Is IconButton OK? etc. By doing this you gain insight of what is special about Text that makes it work.
Thirdly, as a hacky workaround, could you please try Text.rich(WidgetSpan(child: your_web_view))? Since you say Text is OK while other widgets are not OK.
Lastly, maybe need to dig into Text's source to see what magic happens - probably some special configuration? - to let it work.
I am having trouble coding a function. In my app, a quiz has been added, the quiz functionality works, the quiz data is retrieved from a server and delivered as JSON data. I have a problem where my app does not show whether a user's answer is correct or not when they select an answer but will only do so if the user leaves the screen and then returns. Using a function that returns a color, the correct and incorrect answers are presented. However, I am unsure what the problem is; how can I solve it?
I would like to provide the code but it is a lot, so you can find it here: https://github.com/BotsheloRamela/code
Most of the functionality can be found here in the main code: https://github.com/BotsheloRamela/code/blob/main/option.dart
If you're having trouble with that then make sure to do it so
Material(
child: InkWell(
child : Ink()));
// and populate this accordingly
Basically topic.
I am trying to display an image slider with content that I pull from a db. I'm calling for this data in the initstate method. I have managed to do a couple of workarounds, but none of them seem clean enough. I don't necessarily need to call it from initstate, but I need that it shows up as I open the screen.
Thanks in advance.
If it's an image, you can use a package called blurhash, Google it for more information regarding that.
I've been developing in Flutter for a few months and I'm not yet very experienced. These days I'm working on an app that I didn't create from the beginning and I'm having a strange problem, unfortunately I can't paste too much pieces of code but I try to explain the wrong behavior.
The state of the app is contained in an InheritedWidget that is called before all the others. For example, in this InheritedWidget there is a value that must always be visible at the top of the app (in the AppBar). The problem is that if at runtime this value is changed in the InheritedWidget, the view shows the previous value (as if it wasn't updated), but if I do Navigator.push() to a new page, the AppBar shows the correct value (i.e. the updated one). If I pop to the previous page, the old value reappears in the AppBar. If I put the app in the background and bring it back to the foreground, the correct value finally appears.
It seems that the view does not update even if the value changes in the InheritedWidget. I specify that before being displayed, this value is extracted directly from the InheritedWidget using context.dependOnInheritedWidgetOfExactType<InheritedWidgetName>(). I also specify that "updateShouldNotify" is set this way:
#override
bool updateShouldNotify(Session oldWidget) {
return true;
}
I wanted to ask if anyone knows what might be causing this problem.
Thanks in advance.
Here is my problem: I have an app that has 2 list view.builders. You can imagine the scenario.
within the Stateful widget, we have:
Widget build(ct)
{
and this returns a column widget that has TWO list views.
The problem I have is that one list view changes (or should change) the items in another list view.
So what are my options? To create two Widget build(ct1) and Widget build(ct2)??
Do we do that? How can I communicate changes to ct1?
Oh my goodness, I've tried a lot, even setState etc... nothing works.. Perhaps could someone tell me how I can invoke the page to be refreshed?? That would work.
I keep on finding the answers myself - but for anyone who has this issue, Flutter apparently has evolved... if you are using the latest version, I really believe that SetState() function should work for you.. you just need to use it in the right place.