Flutter, render widget after async call : <p>I would like to render a widget that needs an HTTP call to gather some data.</p>

<p>Got the following code (simplified)</p>

<pre><code>import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'dart:async';
import 'dart:convert';

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

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  // This widget is the root of your application.
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new MaterialApp(
      title: 'Flutter demo',
      theme: new ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
      ),
      home: new MyHomePage(title: 'async demo'),
    );
  }
}

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

  final String title;

  @override
  _MyHomePageState createState() =&gt; new _MyHomePageState();
}

class _MyHomePageState extends State&lt;MyHomePage&gt; {

  var asyncWidget;

  @override
  initState() {
    super.initState();

    loadData().then((result) {
      print(result);
      setState(() {
       asyncWidget = result;
      });
    });
  }

  loadData() async {
    var widget = new AsyncWidget();
    return widget.build();
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {

    if(asyncWidget == null) {
      return new Scaffold(
        appBar: new AppBar(
          title: new Text("Loading..."),
        ),
      );
    } else {
      return new Scaffold(
        appBar: new AppBar(
          title: new Text(widget.title),
        ),
        body: new Center(
          child: this.asyncWidget,
        ),
      );
    }
  }
}

class MyRenderer {

  MyRenderer();

  Widget render (List data) {

    List&lt;Widget&gt; renderedWidgets = new List&lt;Widget&gt;();

    data.forEach((element) {
      renderedWidgets.add(new ListTile(
        title: new Text("one element"),
        subtitle: new Text(element.toString()),
      ));
    });
    var lv = new ListView(
      children: renderedWidgets,
    );
    return lv;
  }
}

class MyCollector {

  Future gather() async {

    var response = await // do the http request here;

    return response.body;
  }
}

class AsyncWidget {

  MyCollector collector;
  MyRenderer renderer;

  AsyncWidget() {
    this.collector = new MyCollector();
    this.renderer = new MyRenderer();
  }

  Widget build() {

    var data = this.collector.gather();
    data.then((response) {
      var responseObject = JSON.decode(response);
      print(response);
      return this.renderer.render(responseObject);
    });
    data.catchError((error) {
      return new Text("Oups");
    });
  }
}
</code></pre>

<p>My code works like this : the widget using async data takes a collector (which make the http call) and a renderer which will render the widgets with the http data.
I create an instance of this widget on the initState() and then I make my async call.</p>

<p>I found some documentation saying that we should use the setState() method to update the widget with the new data but this doesn't work for me.</p>

<p>However when I put some logs, i see the HTTP call is done and the setState() method is called, but the widget does not update.</p>
