Flutter Sound Null Safety Simplified

Flutter enforced Sound Null Safety earlier this year from Dart 2.12 which forced all data types to have some data.

Adding a ? after the datakind will allow that datakind to have nothing (null values). datakind? variable = ..

? can be null !

Convert Non-Nullable to Nullable

String ---> String?

Example:

void getItem(String? item) {
	if (item == null) return;
	item.toUppercase();
}

String item = "ball";
String? newItem = item;

Convert Nullable to Non-Nullable

String? item = null;

# check null before converting to non-nulablle
if (item != null) {
  String newItem = item;
}

# fallback to default value if null
String newItem = item ?? 'ball';

# convert to not nullable (!????) 
String newItem = item!;

# use late with initState
late String item;
void initState
  item = 'ball';