Goo day friends! I am new to Flutter and I have been experimenting on fetching data via REST API. On Android Studio, everything works just fine, so I suppose there's nothing wrong with my code.
Things I did to make sure my code works: 1.) Run the code in android simulator; 2.) Run the code using real device (enabling USB Debugging).
And it works just fine.
But when I build an apk file out of it and install it on my device, it no longer makes the API call (or is unable to?). I made it so, when the app runs initState(), it waits for the data to be loaded. While the data is not yet available, a CircularProgressIndicator() takes the entire screen.
If I run the app via the installed apk file, it's just CircularProgressIndicator(). Meaning, no data is being loaded and displayed. But when I run the code in AndroidStudio, the data is shown..
I am using http package. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, or what I'm missing.
Other things to note: I did not change anything in my AndroidManifest file, and just followed all the steps on building apk file in Flutter through the official documentation.
Like alexsanderfr said, this is indeed most of the time being caused by missing
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
You shouldn't need
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
for REST API.
In Flutter, when debugging you implicitly have access to internet, however in release builds, you need to explicitly declare this permission.
Ensure you have the http-package added to your pubspec.yaml file and that it's properly indented with two spaces:
dependencies:
flutter:
sdk: flutter
cupertino_icons: ^0.1.2
http: ^0.12.0+4