Difference between “var” and “dynamic” type in Dart?

Question

According to this article:

As you might know, dynamic (as it is now called) is the stand-in type when a static type annotation is not provide

Answer 1

dynamic is a data type that indicates all data types in dart

var is a variable declaration way like "final" that takes the data type of its value

Answer 2

A dynamic variable can change his type and a var type can't be changed.

For example :

var myVar = 'hello';
dynamic myDynamicVar = 'hello';
myVar = 123; // not possible
myDynamicVar = 123; // possible

Answer 3

dynamic: can change TYPE of the variable, & can change VALUE of the variable later in code.

var: can't change TYPE of the variable, but can change VALUE of the variable later in code.

final: can't change TYPE of the variable, & can't change VALUE of the variable later in code.

dynamic v = 123;   // v is of type int.
v = 456;           // changing value of v from 123 to 456.
v = 'abc';         // changing type of v from int to String.

var v = 123;       // v is of type int.
v = 456;           // changing value of v from 123 to 456.
v = 'abc';         // ERROR: can't change type of v from int to String.

final v = 123;       // v is of type int.
v = 456;           // ERROR: can't change value of v from 123 to 456.
v = 'abc';         // ERROR: can't change type of v from int to String.

Answer 4

var a ;
a = 123;
print(a is int);
print(a);
a = 'hal';
print(a is String);

When defined without initial value, var is dynamic

var b = 321;
print(b is int);
print(b);
//b = 'hal'; //error
print(b is String);

When defined with initial value, var is int in this case.

Answer 5

To clarify some of the previous answers, when you're declaring a variable as dynamic, it's type changes depending on what you assign to it. When you're declaring a var, the type is set once it's assigned something, and it cannot be changed after that.

For example, the following code:

dynamic foo = 'foo';
print('foo is ${foo.runtimeType} ($foo)');
foo = 123;
print('foo is ${foo.runtimeType} ($foo)');

will return the following result when run in DartPad:

foo is String (foo)
foo is int (123)

But the following code won't even compile:

var bar = 'bar';
print('bar is ${bar.runtimeType} ($bar)');
bar = 123; // <-- Won't compile, because bar is a String
print('bar is ${bar.runtimeType} ($bar)');

Long story short - use dynamic if you want a non-typed variable, use var when you want a typed variable with whatever type you assign to it.