Null safety in Flutter

目录

Flutter 2 supports null safety. You can migrate your Flutter packages to use non-nullable types like this:

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  final int anInt = 3; // Cannot be null.
  final int? aNullableInt = null; // Can be null.

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'Nullable Fields Demo',
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text('Nullable Fields Demo'),
        ),
        body: Center(
          child: Column(
            children: [
              Text('anInt is $anInt.'),
              Text('aNullableInt is $aNullableInt.'),
            ],
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Resources

To learn about null safety, read these pages:

  • Sound null safety: The null safety homepage. Has basic information, with links to everything else you might need.
  • Understanding null safety: A deep dive into null safety, written by Dart engineer Bob Nystrom.

When you’re ready to start migrating your packages to null safety, check out these pages:

  • Migrating to null safety: Instructions for converting your packages to null safety.
  • Unsound null safety: Conceptual and practical information about mixed-mode programs, in which only some libraries are null safe.
  • FAQ: Questions that have come up during migration to null safety.

Known issues

Not all parts of the Flutter SDK support null safety yet, as some parts still need additional work to migrate to null safety.

We’re currently aware of the following issues:

  • Migration of the pub.dev packages owned by the Flutter team is in progress. See pub.dev for the current list. We expect the majority of packages to be migrated in the coming weeks; the only exceptions we expect are the legacy integration_tests package, which is deprecated in favor of the version in the Flutter SDK itself (though see below), and some of the packages in https://github.com/flutter/packages/tree/master/packages which may take longer to be migrated.

  • Integration testing with flutter_driver and the version of integration_test in the Flutter SDK.

    • Currently, these methods do not support null safety on the host side of the test. You can drive a null-safe application, but the test itself will not use null-safe Dart.
    • Depending on these packages (flutter_driver and integration_test) will limit your ability to pick up some already migrated dependencies such as args, archive, and crypto, since these packages themselves depend on the non-migrated versions.

    We expect to have this resolved in the first half of 2021.

If you are interested in seeing the latest updates before they reach the beta and stable branches, and are willing to live on the bleeding edge, consider using dev builds (flutter channel dev).