How to use conditional statement within child attribute of a Flutter Widget (Center Widget)

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So far whenever I needed to use a conditional statement within a Widget I have done the following (Using Center and Containers as simplified dummy examples): 

new Center(
  child: condition == true ? new Container() : new Container()
)

Though when I tried using an if/else statement it would lead to an Dead code warning:

new Center(
  child: 
    if(condition == true){
      new Container();
    }else{
      new Container();
    }
)

Interestingly enough I tried with a switch case statement and it gives me the same warning and thus I cannot run the code. Am I doing something wrong or is it so that one cannot use if/else or switch statements without flutter thinking there is dead code?

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