What is the relation between stateful and stateless widgets in Flutter?

Question

A stateful widget is defined as any widget which changes its state within its lifetime. But it is a very common practice for a StatelessWidget to have a S

Answer 1

What are Stateful and Stateless widgets?

TL;DR: A widget that allows you to refresh the screen is a Stateful widget. A widget that does not is Stateless.

In more detail, a dynamic widget with content that can change should be a Stateful widget. A Stateless widget can only change content when the parameters are changed and hence needs to be done above the point of its location in the widget hierarchy. A screen or widget containing static content should be a stateless widget but to change the content, needs to be stateful.

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