What is the difference between Ink and GestureDetector?

Question

When I looked at the example of Ink and GestureDetector, I found that they are providing similar effects.

Could I say that Ink is just a child of GestureDetector, which detects onTap() only ?

Answer 1

• Ink does not have onTap but InkWell does.
• Ink is not a child of GestureDetector (w.r.t. OOPS).
• InkWell and GestureDetector have common attributes but they are different.
• GestureDetectors are roughly InkWells without ink splashes.
• InkWells are roughly GestureDetectors without fancy gesture detections.

In short, they are two different widgets with some common attributes.

Further reads:
Ink
InkWell
GestureDetector