Flutter: use "children: <Widget>" or "children:"?

Question

In this document https://flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/layout#nesting-rows-and-columns they use

children:

But in the Android Studio, and this doc https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/Row-class.html they use

children: &ltWidget&gt

So, what are the differences? Thank you

Answer 1

both of them are true and worked but the difference is :

it`s like when you create a list, you can create lists like below

List<dynamic> list;
List<Widget> list;

when you pass the <Widget>[] you tell to compiler the input list type is Widget and all list child must be Widget not anything else

and if you use children: <Widget>[] your IDE can know the list type and if you add anything except Widget the IDE throw an error before you build the application and waste your time