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Switching between Material and Cupertino.

Let’s demonstrate how Flutter allows you to ‘rebuild’ only certain branches of its widget tree when you wish. StatefulWidgets built upon other StatefulWidgets is a very common way to selectively choose ‘how much’ of your Flutter app’s interface is essentially rebuilt from scratch.

As in many of my articles, I’ll work with a well-known Flutter example to demonstrate the topic. Today, we’ll go to the old Write your first Flutter app example — with some modification of course. Unlike the original, there are two State objects in…