Flutter: Run method on Widget build complete

I would like to be able to run functions once a Widget has finished building/loading but I am unsure how.

My current use case is to check if a user is authenticated and if not, redirect to a login view. I do not want to check before and push either the login view or the main view, it needs to happen after the main view has loaded.

Is there anything I can use to do this?


You could use

https://github.com/slightfoot/flutter_after_layout

which executes a function only one time after the layout is completed. Or just look at its implementation and add it to your code :-)

Which is basically

  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    WidgetsBinding.instance
        .addPostFrameCallback((_) => yourFunction(context));
  }

UPDATE: Flutter v1.8.4

Both mentioned codes are working now:

Working:

WidgetsBinding.instance
        .addPostFrameCallback((_) => yourFunction(context));

Working

import 'package:flutter/scheduler.dart';

SchedulerBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) => yourFunction(context));

There are 3 possible ways:

1) WidgetsBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) => yourFunc(context));

2) Future.delayed(Duration.zero, () => yourFunc(context));

3) Timer.run(() => yourFunc(context));

As for context, I needed it for use in Scaffold.of(context) after all my widgets were rendered.

But in my humble opinion, the best way to do it is this:

void main() async {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized(); //all widgets are rendered here
  await yourFunc();
  runApp( MyApp() );
}