Pause Flutter Countdown Timer

Question

I have been playing with Dart Timer Class that I got it to work in its very basic form, however I am stuck trying to add a pause function to it. I have looked into their documentations, but their is not much about their Timer class...

Is there any way I can pause and resume the timer/countdown on click? This is what I have achieved so far:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'dart:async';

void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'Flutter Demo',
      theme: ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
      ),
      home: MyHomePage(title: 'Flutter Demo Home Page'),
    );
  }
}

class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  MyHomePage({Key key, this.title}) : super(key: key);

  final String title;

  @override
  _MyHomePageState createState() => _MyHomePageState();
}


class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {

  Timer _timer;
  int _start = 10;

  void startTimer() {
    const oneSec = const Duration(seconds: 1);
    _timer = new Timer.periodic(
        oneSec,
            (Timer timer) => setState(() {
          if (_start < 1) {
            timer.cancel();
          } else {
            _start = _start - 1;
          }
        }));
  }


  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(title: Text("Timer test")),
        body: Column(
          children: <Widget>[
            RaisedButton(
              onPressed: () {
                startTimer();
              },
              child: Text("start"),
            ),
            Text("$_start")
          ],
        ));
  }
}

Answer 1

There is no built-in pause function, since the Timer class is mainly intended for scheduling blocks of code for later.

What is your use case? The Stopwatch class has pause and resume funtionality.