The most common case when you want to do this if you have animation running and you do not want to use resources in the background. In this case, you should expand yours Statewith TickerProviderStateMixinand use yours Stateas an argument vsyncto AnimationController. Flutter will take care of invoking listeners to the animation controller only when yours is visible State.
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import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
void main() {
runApp(new MaterialApp(
onGenerateRoute: (RouteSettings settings) {
if (settings.name == '/') {
return new MaterialPageRoute<Null>(
settings: settings,
builder: (_) => new MyApp(),
maintainState: false,
);
}
return null;
}
));
}
class MyApp extends StatefulWidget {
MyAppState createState() => new MyAppState();
}
class MyAppState extends State<MyApp> with TickerProviderStateMixin {
AnimationController _controller;
@override
void initState() {
print("initState was called");
_controller = new AnimationController(vsync: this)
..repeat(min: 0.0, max: 1.0, period: const Duration(seconds: 1))
..addListener(() {
print('animation value ${_controller.value}');
});
super.initState();
}
@override
void dispose() {
print("dispose was called");
_controller.dispose();
super.dispose();
}
int _counter = 0;
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return new Scaffold(
appBar: new AppBar(
title: new Text('home screen')
),
body: new Center(
child: new RaisedButton(
onPressed: () {
setState(() {
_counter++;
});
},
child: new Text('Button pressed $_counter times'),
),
),
floatingActionButton: new FloatingActionButton(
child: new Icon(Icons.remove_red_eye),
onPressed: () {
Navigator.push(context, new MaterialPageRoute(
builder: (BuildContext context) {
return new MySecondPage(counter: _counter);
},
));
},
),
);
}
}
class MySecondPage extends StatelessWidget {
MySecondPage({ this.counter });
final int counter;
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return new Scaffold(
appBar: new AppBar(
title: new Text('Certificate of achievement'),
),
body: new Column(
crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.spaceAround,
children: [
new Icon(Icons.developer_mode, size: 200.0),
new Text(
'Congrats, you clicked $counter times.',
style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.title,
textAlign: TextAlign.center,
),
new Text(
'All your progress has now been lost.',
style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.subhead,
textAlign: TextAlign.center,
),
],
),
);
}
}