Flutter Widgets
Flutter Widgets
Android apps from a single code base. To build any application we start with
widgets – The building block of flutter applications. Widgets describe what their
view should look like given their current configuration and state. It includes a
text widget, row widget, column widget, container widget, and many more.
Widgets: Each element on a screen of the Flutter app is a widget. The view of the
screen completely depends upon the choice and sequence of the widgets used to build
the apps. And the structure of the code of an apps is a tree of widgets.
Category of Widgets:
There are mainly 14 categories in which the flutter widgets are divided. They are
mainly segregated on the basis of the functionality they provide in a flutter
application.
Accessibility: These are the set of widgets that make a flutter app more easily
accessible.
Animation and Motion: These widgets add animation to other widgets.
Assets, Images, and Icons: These widgets take charge of assets such as display
images and show icons.
Async: These provide async functionality in the flutter application.
Basics: These are the bundle of widgets that are absolutely necessary for the
development of any flutter application.
Cupertino: These are the iOS designed widgets.
Input: This set of widgets provides input functionality in a flutter application.
Interaction Models: These widgets are here to manage touch events and route users
to different views in the application.
Layout: This bundle of widgets helps in placing the other widgets on the screen as
needed.
Material Components: This is a set of widgets that mainly follow material design by
Google.
Painting and effects: This is the set of widgets that apply visual changes to their
child widgets without changing their layout or shape.
Scrolling: This provides scrollability of to a set of other widgets that are not
scrollable by default.
Styling: This deals with the theme, responsiveness, and sizing of the app.
Text: This displays text.