Doing Simple Navigation in Flutter – Simple Example

Navigation is done is Flutter using the Navigator class.

Lets look at a simple example

The first thing you have to register routes for difference screen is to build a Map of ‘String’ (route) and the page (Widget).

Lets say I have a utility class for the Creating Routes named routes.dart. The contents of route.dart contains the below code

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'exercises_screen.dart';

class Routes {
  static Map<String, WidgetBuilder> buildRoutes() {
    Map<String, WidgetBuilder> routes = new Map<String, WidgetBuilder>();
    routes.putIfAbsent(
        '/exercises', () => (BuildContext context) => new Exercises());
    return routes;
  }
}

My Exercises class will simply look like this

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class Exercises extends StatefulWidget {
  const Exercises({Key key}) : super(key: key);

  static const String routeName = '/exercises';
  @override
  State<StatefulWidget> createState() {
    return new _ExercisesState();
  }
}

class _ExercisesState extends State<Exercises> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Scaffold(
      appBar: new AppBar(title: new Text("Exercises")),
      body: new Container(child: Text("Exercises")),
    );
  }
}

Register the Routes

Note the buildRoutes() function used in the “routes” property of the initial MaterialApp.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'home.dart';
import 'routes.dart';

void main() => runApp(new MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  // This widget is the root of your application.
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new MaterialApp(
      title: 'Flutter Demo',
      theme: new ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
      ),
      home: new MyHomePage(title: 'Home'),
      routes: Routes.buildRoutes(), // register the routes for the application.
    );
  }
}

Invoke the Push

Its Simple as that…

  Navigator.pushNamed(context, '/exercises');

Note: This will only work if you have registered the screen “Exercises” with route “/exercises”.

Pop Screen

To Pop current screen

  Navigator.of(context).pop();