Flutter - Value Notifier

Last Updated : 24 Apr, 2025

If you are a flutter developer then you must have heard about the state management. You have knowledge of that. If you are new to this topic then we will learn a little bit more about it. You can refer to Flutter – State Management. Do you know other than setState there is more state management you can use to store change the values you have stored in that state management? The name of the widget is ValueListenableBuilder. It will take two variable

1. valueListenable

It will take a type of ValueNotifier of any data type which you want to use in your complete app.

2. builder

It will be like a function that contains 3 variables with sequence (BuildContext context, value, Widget? child), and this function will take 1 widget which will return by the builder function. In this, you have to pass the materialapp widget. Now let's start

Step By Step Implementation

Step 1: Create a New Project in Android Studio

To set up Flutter Development on Android Studio please refer to Android Studio Setup for Flutter Development, and then create a new project in Android Studio please refer to Creating a Simple Application in Flutter.

Step 2: Create 1 variable below the main function of the value notifier type

Note: Must Give the name without an underscore.

Dart

ValueNotifier<String> myValue = ValueNotifier("");

Step 3: Add value ValueListenableBuilder in the MyApp Function (Widget class you are passing in runApp function) like this

Dart

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyApp({super.key});
  // This widget is the root of your application.
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return ValueListenableBuilder(
      // Value define in previous steps
      valueListenable: myValue, 
      builder: (BuildContext context, value, Widget? child) { 
      return MaterialApp(
      title: 'Value Notifier',
      theme: ThemeData(
       
        primarySwatch: Colors.green,
      ),
      home: const MyHomePage(),
    );
     }, );
  }
}

Step 4: Now you can access the value of the variable myValue all over the app

We will use the Center of the screen to show the value.

Dart

body: Center(child: Text(myValue.value,style: TextStyle(
        fontSize: 24,
        color:Colors.green,fontWeight:FontWeight.bold),),),

Step 5: Now we will learn about how to update the value of myValue

Dart

// Here we have done setstate because we
// have to update value locally also to show it
myValue.value="GeeksForGeeks is Best";
      setState(() {
        
      });