flutter/examples
Greg Spencer 4ce7fdd92b
Remove 'must be non-null' and 'must not be null' comments from non-framework libraries (#134994)
## Description

This removes all of the comments that are of the form "so-and-so must not be null" or "so-and-so must be non-null" from the cases where those values are defines as non-nullable values.

This PR removes them from the library in the repo that don't have anything to do with the framework.

This was done by hand, since it really didn't lend itself to scripting, so it needs to be more than just spot-checked, I think. I was careful to leave any comment that referred to parameters that were nullable, but I may have missed some.

In addition to being no longer relevant after null safety has been made the default, these comments were largely fragile, in that it was easy for them to get out of date, and not be accurate anymore anyhow.

This did create a number of constructor comments which basically say "Creates a [Foo].", but I don't really know how to avoid that in a large scale change, since there's not much you can really say in a lot of cases.  I think we might consider some leniency for constructors to the "Comment must be meaningful" style guidance (which we de facto have already, since there are a bunch of these).

## Related PRs
- https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/134984
- https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/134991
- https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/134992
- https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/134993

## Tests
 - Documentation only change.
2023-09-19 17:26:07 +00:00
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api [flutter roll] Revert "LinkedText (Linkify)" (#134955) 2023-09-18 19:49:10 +00:00
flutter_view Enable private field promotion for examples (#134478) 2023-09-12 18:42:01 +00:00
hello_world Bump gradle heap size limit in *everywhere* (#134665) 2023-09-13 10:36:24 -07:00
image_list Bump gradle heap size limit in *everywhere* (#134665) 2023-09-13 10:36:24 -07:00
layers Remove 'must be non-null' and 'must not be null' comments from non-framework libraries (#134994) 2023-09-19 17:26:07 +00:00
platform_channel Bump gradle heap size limit in *everywhere* (#134665) 2023-09-13 10:36:24 -07:00
platform_channel_swift Enable private field promotion for examples (#134478) 2023-09-12 18:42:01 +00:00
platform_view Enable private field promotion for examples (#134478) 2023-09-12 18:42:01 +00:00
splash Enable private field promotion for examples (#134478) 2023-09-12 18:42:01 +00:00
texture Enable private field promotion for examples (#134478) 2023-09-12 18:42:01 +00:00
.clang-format Implement Linux part of examples (#108068) 2022-12-08 08:44:11 +13:00
flutter_gallery.readme Move flutter_gallery to the testing folder (#52532) 2020-03-16 10:31:42 +01:00
README.md Fix typo in README.md (#126053) 2023-05-04 14:58:17 +02:00

Flutter Examples

This directory contains several examples of using Flutter. To run an example, use flutter run inside that example's directory. See the getting started guide to install the flutter tool.

For additional samples, see the flutter/samples repo.

Available examples include:

Notes

Note on Gradle wrapper files in .gitignore:

Gradle wrapper files should normally be checked into source control. The example projects don't do that to avoid having several copies of the wrapper binary in the Flutter repo. Instead, the Gradle wrapper is injected by Flutter tooling, and the wrapper files are .gitignore'd to avoid making the Flutter repository dirty as a side effect of running the examples.