Network Request - Flutter Explained - Level: Beginner

Today we have a tremendous episode of Flutter Explained. I have the honour to explain to you guys how a future request works. In one of my episodes, I explained the future builder but I left the network request out of scope. Today I will turn this around, we ignore the UI and concentrate only on the Network request.

We will create a Person Model that is our representation of a Person from the API in Dart. The fromJson Constructor will be very handy in that situation to create for us the Person object. After that, we will create a Future request with the HTTP package from pub.dev to get all the information that we want to display.

 ⭐️⭐️ Helpful Ressources ⭐️⭐️ Repository: https://github.com/md-weber/network_request_tutorial Flutter JSON Serialization: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/data-and-backend/json

⭐️⭐️ Timeline ⭐️⭐️ 0:40 - pub.dev access the HTTP package (https://pub.dev/packages/http) 1:30 - random user generator API (https://randomuser.me/) 2:45 - explaining the boilerplate 3:50 - creating of the person model 5:50 - fromJson Constructor 9:20 - get the data/network service 10:55 - Dependency on the HTTP package 11:50 - Import the HTTP package 13:15 - Response object and Future 15:15 - Short Recap 15:50 - JSON and jsonDecode from dart:convert 17:45 - map the JSON to a Person object 18:45 - Complete the network request 22:40 - Challange 23:25 - Outro

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