31.34 Flutter Class StatefulWidget

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A stateful widget allows an application to carry some state (the value of a counter, or the filename of a file that is to be loaded, etc). Flutter uses StatefulWidgets to capture state. A StatefulWidget knows how to generate State objects which is where the state is held.

In Flutter, Widgets are temporary objects and are used to construct the presentation of the application in its current state. We contrast this with the State object connected to the Widget. A State object is persistent between calls to build and so they can store data that lives beyond the build of the corresponding Widget.

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