Flutter Design Patterns: 11 — Abstract Factory

An overview of the Abstract Factory design pattern and its implementation in Dart and Flutter

In the last article, I analysed the Factory Method design pattern. This time I would like to analyse and implement an OOP design pattern, which has a similar purpose, even a similar name, but is more flexible and suits the structure of big projects better than the Factory Method design pattern — it is the Abstract Factory.

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Table of Contents

• What is the Abstract Factory design pattern?
• Analysis
• Implementation
• Other articles in this series
• Your contribution

What is the Abstract Factory design pattern?

Santa’s factory (source)

Abstract Factory is a creational design pattern, also known as Kit. Its intention in…