[dart] How do I supply an initial value to a text field?

I'd like to supply an initial value to a text field and redraw it with an empty value to clear the text. What's the best approach to do that with Flutter's APIs?

inside class,

  final usernameController = TextEditingController(text: 'bhanuka');

TextField,

   child: new TextField(
        controller: usernameController,
    ...
)

TextEdittingController _controller = new TextEdittingController(text: "your Text");

or

@override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    _Controller.text = "Your Text";
    }

class _YourClassState extends State<YourClass> {
  TextEditingController _controller = TextEditingController();

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    _controller.text = 'Your message';
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Container(
      color: Colors.white,
      child: TextFormField(
        controller: _controller,
        decoration: InputDecoration(labelText: 'Send message...'),
      ),
    );
  }
}

(From the mailing list. I didn't come up with this answer.)

class _FooState extends State<Foo> {
  TextEditingController _controller;

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    _controller = new TextEditingController(text: 'Initial value');
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Column(
      children: <Widget>[
        new TextField(
          // The TextField is first built, the controller has some initial text,
          // which the TextField shows. As the user edits, the text property of
          // the controller is updated.
          controller: _controller,
        ),
        new RaisedButton(
          onPressed: () {
            // You can also use the controller to manipuate what is shown in the
            // text field. For example, the clear() method removes all the text
            // from the text field.
            _controller.clear();
          },
          child: new Text('CLEAR'),
        ),
      ],
    );
  }
}

You can use a TextFormField instead of TextField, and use the initialValue property. for example

TextFormField(initialValue: "I am smart")

If you want to handle multiple TextInputs as asked by @MRT in the comment to the accepted answer, you can create a function that takes an initial value and returns a TextEditingController like this:

initialValue(val) {
  return TextEditingController(text: val);
}

Then, set this function as the controller for the TextInput and supply its initial value there like this:

controller: initialValue('Some initial value here....')

You can repeat this for the other TextInputs.

I've seen many ways of doing this on here. However I think this is a little more efficient or at least concise than the other answers.

TextField(
   controller: TextEditingController(text: "Initial Text here"),
)

If you are using TextEditingController then set the text to it, like below

TextEditingController _controller = new TextEditingController();


_controller.text = 'your initial text';

final your_text_name = TextFormField(
      autofocus: false,
      controller: _controller,
      decoration: InputDecoration(
        hintText: 'Hint Value',
      ),
    );

and if you are not using any TextEditingController then you can directly use initialValue like below

final last_name = TextFormField(
      autofocus: false,
      initialValue: 'your initial text',
      decoration: InputDecoration(
        hintText: 'Last Name',
      ),
    );

For more reference TextEditingController

This can be achieved using TextEditingController.

To have an initial value you can add

TextEditingController _controller = TextEditingController(text: 'initial value');

or

If you are using TextFormField you have a initialValue property there. Which basically provides this initialValue to the controller automatically.

TextEditingController _controller = TextEditingController();
TextFormField(
  controller: _controller,
  initialValue: 'initial value'
)

To clear the text you can use _controller.clear() method.

You don't have to define a separate variable in the widget scope, just do it inline:

TextField(
  controller: TextEditingController()..text = 'Your initial value',
  onChanged: (text) => {},
)