A new way of listening to the app lifecycle events in Flutter

Overview of the new AppLifecycleListener class introduced in Flutter v3.13

Flutter 3.13 introduced a lot of new features and improvements. One of them is a new class called AppLifecycleListener which allows you to listen to the lifecycle events of your Flutter app. It is an improvement compared to the previous way of listening to the app lifecycle events. In this article, I will compare the old and new ways of listening to the app lifecycle events and show you how to use the new AppLifecycleListener class.

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The “old” way

Before Flutter 3.13, you could listen to the app lifecycle events by using the WidgetsBindingObserver mixin. For that, you had to add the WidgetsBindingObserver mixin to your State class and override the didChangeAppLifecycleState method. In the didChangeAppLifecycleState method, you could listen to the app lifecycle events by using the provided state (AppLifecycleState) value.

class AppLifecyclePageOld extends StatefulWidget {
  const AppLifecyclePageOld({super.key});

  @override…