How do I set the background color of my main screen in Flutter?

Question

I'm learning Flutter, and I'm starting from the very basics. I'm not using MaterialApp. What's a good way to set the background color of the whole screen?

Here's what I have so far:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() {
  runApp(new MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  // This widget is the root of your application.
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Center(child: new Text("Hello, World!"));
  }
}

Some of my questions are:

• What's a basic way to set the background color?
• What exactly am I looking at, on the screen? Which code "is" the background? Is there a thing to set the background color on? If not, what's a simple and appropriate "simple background" (in order to paint a background color).

Thanks for the help!

The code above generates a black screen with white text:

Answer 1

I think you can also use a scaffold to do the white background. Here's some piece of code that may help.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
void main() => runApp(new MyApp());
class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
    Widget build(BuildContext context) {

      return new MaterialApp(
        title: 'Testing',
        home: new Scaffold(
        //Here you can set what ever background color you need.
          backgroundColor: Colors.white,
        ),
      );
    }
}

Hope this helps 😊.