A different way to use assets in Flutter

In this blog, I’ll show you a new way to use assets in Flutter.

How this new new approach look like?

How to implement this?

Add the following dependencies first in dev_dependencies in pubspec.yaml.

dev_dependencies:
  build_runner: ^2.1.11
  flutter_gen_runner: ^4.3.0

Add your required assets in assets folder and mention it in pubspec.yaml.

flutter:
   uses-material-design: true
   assets:
      - assets/

This is how I added

I’ve added the following images in assets folder

After that run the following command in command prompt/Terminal.

flutter pub run build_runner build

This command generates a new file in lib folder i.e. lib/gen/assets.gen.dart

Now you can use the assets in your project as below

Assets.google.image() //=> Image.assets("assets/google.png")

To continuously watch the changes to assets folder, type the following command.

flutter pub run build_runner watch --delete-conflicting-outputs

— delete-conflicting-outputs flag lets you solve any issues regarding outputs of previous build.