What's the difference between async and async* in Dart?

Issue

I am making an application using flutter framework . During this I came across with the keywords in Dart async and async*. Can anybody tell me what's the difference between them?

Solution

Marking a function as async or async* allows it to use the async/await for a Future.

The difference between both is that async* will always return a Stream and offer some syntactical sugar to emit a value through the yield keyword.

We can therefore do the following:

Stream<int> foo() async* {
  for (int i = 0; i < 42; i++) {
    await Future.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 1));
    yield i;
  }
}

This function emits a value every second, which increments every time.

Answered By - Rémi Rousselet