Level up your Flutter apps with autofill
It’s official, Flutter 1.20 is here. Among all the goodies and improvements, mobile autofill gets highlighted in the tagline, and even has a gif demonstrating how slick the UX is. Unfortunately, there are not yet many examples, tutorials, or gotchas available, hence the born of this article.
What/Why autofill?
From Android Developer Guide:
Filling out forms is a time-consuming and error-prone task. Users can easily get frustrated with apps that require such actions. The autofill framework improves the user experience by providing the following benefits:
Less time spent in filling fields. Autofill saves users from re-typing information.
Minimize user input errors. Typing is prone to errors, especially on mobile devices. Minimizing the need to type information also minimizes typos.
Get started with a form with NO autofill
We will start with a simple form with addresses, a phone number, and a field that should not be autofilled later.
