Flutter for Beginners

The flutter_linkify plugin

There is, of course, a plugin that does the job of styling links in text for us, flutter_linkify. It does the job described in the previous section and presents this to us through the Linkify widget. It parses a text looking for links, and uses spans to differentiate between simple text and links, and, as a bonus, it exposes useful features:

• The onOpen property, which expects a callback to handle a click on a link
• The humanizing property, which displays a link without HTTP/HTTPS

We have changed our Favors app to show the links from the description of the request in the favor cards.

The request part doesn't need any modification, as the user types the link normally in the text.

The changes to make the links appear ...