Learn how to easily and gracefully handle your REST API requests in Flutter using the Dio package in this detailed tutorial.

A crucial part of application development is gracefully handling network requests. Responses returned by a network may consist of unexpected results, and in order to have a good user experience, you need to take care of edge cases in advance.

In this article, we will take a look at how to handle REST API requests in Flutter using the Dio package.

What is Dio?

Dio is a powerful HTTP client for Dart. It has support for interceptors, global configuration, FormData, request cancellation, file downloading, and timeout, among others. Flutter offers an http package that’s nice for performing basic network tasks but is pretty daunting to use when handling some advanced features. By comparison, Dio provides an intuitive API for performing advanced network tasks with ease.

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