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title: "Three flutter widgets you may have never used before"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/three-flutter-widgets-you-may-have-never-used-before-unn1w2tbo
source_url: https://medium.com/flutter-community/three-flutter-widgets-you-may-have-never-used-before-e631d085437f
type: article
source: "Flutter Community"
published: 2025-12-11T01:07:44.163Z
updated: 2025-12-11T01:08:11.001Z
tags: ["performance", "mobile", "flutter", "ui-design"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
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# Three flutter widgets you may have never used before

**[Flutter Community](https://daily.dev/sources/flutter_com)** · 5 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Three lesser-known Flutter widgets can improve your development workflow and app performance. GridPaper overlays a customizable grid to help debug alignment and spacing issues visually. TickerMode provides an on/off switch for animations in a widget subtree, conserving resources when screens are offstage. RepaintBoundary isolates widget subtrees into separate compositing layers to prevent unnecessary repaints and reduce jank. Each widget addresses specific problems: GridPaper for layout debugging, TickerMode for animation control and performance, and RepaintBoundary for optimizing rendering performance when used judiciously.

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