Futures
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What is Futures?
Futures in Flutter are a way of representing a potential value that will be available at some point in the future. Some key points about Futures in Flutter:
- Futures are used for asynchronous programming in Flutter
- Futures return a single value (or an error) and are often used with
asyncandawait. - The
thenmethod can be used to attach a callback to a Future that will be executed once the Future's value is available - Futures can be combined with other Futures using
Future.waitorFuture.whenCompletemethods - Futures are often used with network requests, file I/O operations, and other long-running tasks in Flutter.
Free resources to learn Futures
- Official docsFutures and Error handling
More in stage 11: Advanced Dart
Futures: common questions
Can I learn Futures in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Futures in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this Futures tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 62 of 108 in the free Flutter roadmap, in stage 11, Advanced Dart. If you are new to Flutter, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.