Flutter Recipes: Mobile Development Solutions for iOS and Android

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7. Common Widgets

Fu Cheng¹ 

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Sandringham, Auckland, New Zealand

 

In Flutter apps, some widgets are widely used for different purposes. This chapter discusses some common widgets.

7.1 Displaying a List of Items

Problem

You want to display a scrollable list of items.

Solution

Use ListView widget as the container of items.

Discussion

Flutter layout widgets like Flex, Row, and Column don’t support scrolling, and these widgets are not designed to be used to display items when scrolling is required. If you want to display a large number of items, you should use ListView widget. You can think ListView as the scrollable counterpart of Flex widget.

There are three different ways ...