So this is my first time publishing a Flutter app to the Google Play Store. I wanted to create something simple so I could learn the entire process. So I created a simple Trivia App.
When I run the app from my phone or emulator (Android or iPhone) the free API that I'm using here loads the categories without any issues.
The issue I'm having is when I publish the app to the Play Store, the API doesn't load and I don't even get an error message. Just a blank screen.
Here is the API service call in my app:
static Future<List<Category>> fetchCategories() async {
const url = "https://opentdb.com/api_category.php";
var response;
try {
response = await http.get(url);
if (response.statusCode == 200) {
var jsonString = response.body;
final Map<String, dynamic> responseData = json.decode(jsonString);
var list = responseData['trivia_categories'] as List;
var _items = list.map((i) => Category.fromJson(i)).toList();
return _items;
} else {
return null;
}
} on Exception {
throw response.statusCode;
}
}
And this is the code in the controller that calls the API's method.
void fetchCategories() async {
// flag as loading.
isLoading(true);
try {
//get categories from API server
var categories = await ApiServices.fetchCategories();
if (categories != null) {
categories.forEach((Category categoryItem) async {
// adjust data accordingly
categoryItem.totalQuestions =
await fetchCategoryCount(categoryItem.id);
if (userDataController.data.read(categoryItem.id.toString()) !=
null) {
// get a list of answered questions from the device and count them
List<dynamic> correctAnswers =
userDataController.data.read(categoryItem.id.toString());
categoryItem.correctAnswers = correctAnswers.length;
} else {
categoryItem.correctAnswers = 0;
}
categoryTiles.add(categoryItem);
});
}
} on Exception catch (e) {
throw new Exception("An error occured fetching the data");
} finally {
isLoading(false);
}
}
Has anyone else ran into this issue?
