How to preserve widget states in flutter, when nav

问题:

I'm currently working on building a Flutter app that will preserve states when navigating from one screen, to another, and back again when utilizing BottomNavigationBar. Just like it works in the Spotify mobile application; if you have navigated down to a certain level in the navigation hierarchy on one of the main screens, changing screen via the bottom navigation bar, and later changing back to the old screen, will preserve where the user were in that hierarchy, including preservation of the state.

I have run my head against the wall, trying various different things without success.

I want to know how I can prevent the pages in pageChooser(), when toggled once the user taps the BottomNavigationBar item, from rebuilding themselves, and instead preserve the state they already found themselves in (the pages are all stateful Widgets).

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import './page_plan.dart';
import './page_profile.dart';
import './page_startup_namer.dart';

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

class Recipher extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Pages();
  }
}

class Pages extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  createState() => new PagesState();
}

class PagesState extends State<Pages> {
  int pageIndex = 0;


  pageChooser() {
    switch (this.pageIndex) {
      case 0:
        return new ProfilePage();
        break;

      case 1:
        return new PlanPage();
        break;

      case 2:
        return new StartUpNamerPage(); 
        break;  

      default:
        return new Container(
          child: new Center(
            child: new Text(
              'No page found by page chooser.',
              style: new TextStyle(fontSize: 30.0)
              )
            ),
          );     
    }
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new MaterialApp(
      home: new Scaffold(
        body: pageChooser(),
        bottomNavigationBar: new BottomNavigationBar(
          currentIndex: pageIndex,
          onTap: (int tappedIndex) { //Toggle pageChooser and rebuild state with the index that was tapped in bottom navbar
            setState(
              (){ this.pageIndex = tappedIndex; }
              ); 
            },
          items: <BottomNavigationBarItem>[
            new BottomNavigationBarItem(
              title: new Text('Profile'),
              icon: new Icon(Icons.account_box)
              ),
              new BottomNavigationBarItem(
                title: new Text('Plan'),
                icon: new Icon(Icons.calendar_today)
              ),
                new BottomNavigationBarItem(
                title: new Text('Startup'),
                icon: new Icon(Icons.alarm_on)
              )
            ],
          )
      )
    );
  }
}

回答1:

Use AutomaticKeepAliveClientMixin to force your tab content to not be disposed.

class PersistantTab extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _PersistantTabState createState() => _PersistantTabState();
}

class _PersistantTabState extends State<PersistantTab> with AutomaticKeepAliveClientMixin {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Container();
  }

  // Setting to true will force the tab to never be disposed. This could be dangerous.
  @override
  bool get wantKeepAlive => true;
}

To make sure your tab does get disposed when it doesn't require to be persisted, make wantKeepAlive return a class variable. You must call updateKeepAlive() to update the keep alive status.

Example with dynamic keep alive:

// class PersistantTab extends StatefulWidget ...

class _PersistantTabState extends State<PersistantTab>
    with AutomaticKeepAliveClientMixin {
  bool keepAlive = false;

  @override
  void initState() {
    doAsyncStuff();
  }

  Future doAsyncStuff() async {
    keepAlive = true;
    updateKeepAlive();
    // Keeping alive...

    await Future.delayed(Duration(seconds: 10));

    keepAlive = false;
    updateKeepAlive();
    // Can be disposed whenever now.
  }

  @override
  bool get wantKeepAlive => keepAlive;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Container();
  }
}

回答2:

Instead of returning new instance every time you run pageChooser, have one instance created and return the same.

Example:

class Pages extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  createState() => new PagesState();
}

class PagesState extends State<Pages> {
  int pageIndex = 0;

  // Create all the pages once and return same instance when required
  final ProfilePage _profilePage = new ProfilePage(); 
  final PlanPage _planPage = new PlanPage();
  final StartUpNamerPage _startUpNamerPage = new StartUpNamerPage();


  Widget pageChooser() {
    switch (this.pageIndex) {
      case 0:
        return _profilePage;
        break;

      case 1:
        return _planPage;
        break;

      case 2:
        return _startUpNamerPage;
        break;

      default:
        return new Container(
          child: new Center(
              child: new Text(
                  'No page found by page chooser.',
                  style: new TextStyle(fontSize: 30.0)
              )
          ),
        );
    }
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new MaterialApp(
        home: new Scaffold(
            body: pageChooser(),
            bottomNavigationBar: new BottomNavigationBar(
              currentIndex: pageIndex,
              onTap: (int tappedIndex) { //Toggle pageChooser and rebuild state with the index that was tapped in bottom navbar
                setState(
                        (){ this.pageIndex = tappedIndex; }
                );
              },
              items: <BottomNavigationBarItem>[
                new BottomNavigationBarItem(
                    title: new Text('Profile'),
                    icon: new Icon(Icons.account_box)
                ),
                new BottomNavigationBarItem(
                    title: new Text('Plan'),
                    icon: new Icon(Icons.calendar_today)
                ),
                new BottomNavigationBarItem(
                    title: new Text('Startup'),
                    icon: new Icon(Icons.alarm_on)
                )
              ],
            )
        )
    );
  }
}

Or you can make use of widgets like PageView or Stack to achieve the same.

Hope that helps!