Flutter setState to another class?

Solution 1:

You can use callbacks functions to achieve this. Please refer to the below code.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class RootPage extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _RootPageState createState() => new _RootPageState();
}
class _RootPageState extends State<RootPage> {
  FeedPage feedPage;

  Widget currentPage;

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    feedPage = FeedPage(this.callback);

    currentPage = feedPage;
  }

  void callback(Widget nextPage) {
    setState(() {
      this.currentPage = nextPage;
    });
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Scaffold(
      //Current page to be changed from other classes too?
        body: currentPage
    );
  }
}



class FeedPage extends StatefulWidget {
  Function callback;

  FeedPage(this.callback);

  @override
  _feedPageState createState() => new _feedPageState();
}
class _feedPageState extends State<FeedPage> {

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new FlatButton(
      onPressed: () {
        this.widget.callback(new NextPage());
//        setState(() {
//          //change the currentPage in RootPage so it switches FeedPage away and gets a new class that I'll make
//        });
      },
      child: new Text('Go to a new page but keep root, just replace this feed part'),
    );
  }
}

This is very similar to this problem and you could refer 3rd point in my answer.

Solution 2:

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Full code:

This is the ParentPage:

class ParentPage extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _ParentPageState createState() => _ParentPageState();
}

class _ParentPageState extends State<ParentPage> {
  int _count = 0;

  // Pass this method to the child page.
  void _update(int count) {
    setState(() => _count = count);
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: Column(
        children: [
          Text('Value (in parent) = $_count'),
          ChildPage(update: _update),
        ],
      ),
    );
  }
}

This is the ChildPage:

class ChildPage extends StatelessWidget {
  final ValueChanged<int> update;
  ChildPage({required this.update});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return ElevatedButton(
      onPressed: () => update(100), // Passing value to the parent widget.
      child: Text('Update (in child)'),
    );
  }
}