Dart Flutter "Non-nullable instance field '_isSigningIn' must be initialized." Error

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I'm trying to do a Google Auth operation with Dart Flutter.

I made the exact same code as in the video I watched. While it doesn't give an error in the video, it gives me an error.

My codes:

import 'package:firebase_auth/firebase_auth.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:google_sign_in/google_sign_in.dart';

class GoogleSignInProvider extends ChangeNotifier {
  final googleSignIn = GoogleSignIn();
  bool _isSigningIn;

  GoogleSignInProvider() {
    _isSigningIn = false;
  }

  bool get isSigningIn => _isSigningIn;

  set isSigningIn(bool isSigningIn) {
    _isSigningIn = isSigningIn;
    notifyListeners();
  }

  Future login() async {
    isSigningIn = true;

    final user = await googleSignIn.signIn();
    if (user == null) {
      isSigningIn = false;
      return;
    } else {
      final googleAuth = await user.authentication;

      final credential = GoogleAuthProvider.credential(
        accessToken: googleAuth.accessToken,
        idToken: googleAuth.idToken,
      );

      await FirebaseAuth.instance.signInWithCredential(credential);

      isSigningIn = false;
    }
  }

  void logout() async {
    await googleSignIn.disconnect();
    FirebaseAuth.instance.signOut();
  }
}

Error:

GoogleSignInProvider GoogleSignInProvider()
package:todolist/google_sign_in.dart

Non-nullable instance field '_isSigningIn' must be initialized.
Try adding an initializer expression, or add a field initializer in this constructor, or mark it 'late'.

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What is the problem? How can I solve it? I thank you in advance for the help.

google-signin dart flutter android
2 Answers

because your value is not nullable, it requires a default value

bool _isSigningIn; //non-nullable variable should be inialized
bool? _isSigningIn; //nullable variable and does not requires initialization

If you make your variable nullable you can leave it uninitialized, in other case, you should either initialize it when you define it

bool _isSigningIn = false;

or inside your constructor with a value, like this:

GoogleSignInProvider(this._isSigningIn);

There is one more option, you can also give a default value:

  1. put your variable in [] and give a default value, it will be positional argument but it won't be required

See the example below:

class GoogleSignInProvider extends ChangeNotifier {
  final googleSignIn = GoogleSignIn();
  bool _isSigningIn;
  
  GoogleSignInProvider([this._isSigningIn = false]);
  
}
user_138585760

Make the _isSigningIn either nullable or intitalize it. i.e

class GoogleSignInProvider extends ChangeNotifier {
  final googleSignIn = GoogleSignIn();
  bool? _isSigningIn; // Note the ? (question mark).

or

class GoogleSignInProvider extends ChangeNotifier {
  final googleSignIn = GoogleSignIn();
  bool _isSigningIn = false;

You are getting this error because dart now support null-safety and it's on by default. While the older version of dart don't.

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