It's not clear to me why padding isn't a property of any widget. The Container widget seems like the spacer.gif of Flutter... adding extra nodes and complexity where there shouldn't be
The docs seem to suggest it's not much different from a Container. My issue is that it forces you to create wrapper Containers/Paddings solely for the sake of padding
it's very common to wrap widgets with other widgets
And that doesn't really answer the first question — if Container is a widget that accepts a padding attribute, why not let any widget accept a padding attribute?
you can alway break up complex build functions by extracting reusable components into widgets
or putting some parts in different functions
depend on what's most aesthetic
to answer your question
we could add a padding attribute to every widget
each widget could start with
if (padding != null) return new Padding(padding: padding, child: <whatever it would return otherwise>)
a couple widgets that can do something more efficient than that do have a padding attribute
otherwise, you might as well put the
Padding outside the widget
because otherwise you'll be constantly checking whether the client wants padding even though they usually don't
you can try out different styles with your own widgets
and form your own conclusions about what patterns are more effective
but we've found that having simpler widgets that compose easily is a more effective pattern than having big complex widgets that are more difficult to compose
Padding tends to be the stepping stone in that direction
@cortexdesign I presume the Firebase plugin will work soon since there's an event about Flutter & Firebase in less than a month at I/O: https://events.google.com/io/schedule/?section=may-19&sid=496d01fb-2139-4fd6-84b2-e585d1a20e61
it appears to me that it's impossible to change a TextEditingController from its listener
is this expected or a bug?
@christian-lefty @abarth would know. Or you can ask on stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/flutter if he's not around
@donnyv I don't currently have an example of adding a webview, but I'll add it to the list of samples we should provide
what goes wrong?
Ah, I think I found some older discussion about this. I'm trying to put a GridView inside a ScrollView, but it's not working for some reason. I don't need the GridView to scroll, but I'd prefer to use it instead of a Row because (a) I want it to flow to multiple rows if there are enough children, and (b) GridView has properties for item spacing that Row doesn't have
Is there a different class I should be using?
GridView does not require its children to be GridTiles
In a Fltter app's Stateful widget, where is the right place to put a call to fetch remote API?