An unofficial list view for flutter

by Flutter Awesome

Flutter List View

I don’t like official list view. There are some features don’t provide and jumpTo performance is not good. I rewrite the list supported these features in [Features] sections

Features

  1. Support jump to index
    Jump to index is not support in listview. But it is useful function
  2. Support keep position
    If some data insert before other items, It will scroll down. Some chat software may want to keep the position not scroll down when new message coming.
  3. Support show top in reverse mode if the data can’t fill full viewport.
  4. Support header sticky
  5. Support integrate pull_to_refresh
  6. Support scroll to specify index when initialize data
  7. Performance
    When listview jump to somewhere, The items which layout before the position will always loaded. It is not realy lazy loading.

Screen

Example

FlutterListView(
      delegate: FlutterListViewDelegate(
    (BuildContext context, int index) =>
        ListTile(title: Text('List Item ${data[index]}')),
    childCount: data.length,
  ))

Jump to index

flutterListViewController.jumpToIndex(100);

OR

/// Declare
FlutterListViewController controller = FlutterListViewController();
...
controller.sliverController
                      .jumpToIndex(100);
...
FlutterListView(
  controller: controller,
  delegate: FlutterListViewDelegate(
    (BuildContext context, int index) => Container(
      color: Colors.white,
      child: ListTile(title: Text('List Item ${data[index]}')),
    ),
    childCount: data.length,
  ))

If you want better user expierence, preferItemHeight or onItemHeight may set to.

  • preferItemHeight
    The package don’t know the item’s height, If you don’t set, package alway think the item height is 50 util layout the item. If you know the height, you should set it.
  • onItemHeight
    like preferItemHeight, the function will used to get height of each item util the item layout.

Keep Position

_renderList() {
  return FlutterListView(
      reverse: true,
      delegate: FlutterListViewDelegate(
          (BuildContext context, int index) => Align(
                alignment: Alignment.centerRight,
                child: Padding(
                  padding: const EdgeInsets.all(10.0),
                  child: Container(
                    decoration: const BoxDecoration(
                        color: Colors.blue,
                        borderRadius: BorderRadius.only(
                            topLeft: Radius.circular(20),
                            bottomLeft: Radius.circular(20),
                            bottomRight: Radius.circular(20))),
                    child: Padding(
                      padding: const EdgeInsets.all(10.0),
                      child: Text(
                        chatListContents[index].msg,
                        style: const TextStyle(
                            fontSize: 14.0, color: Colors.white),
                      ),
                    ),
                  ),
                ),
              ),
          childCount: chatListContents.length,
          onItemKey: (index) => chatListContents[index].id.toString(),
          keepPosition: true,
          keepPositionOffset: 80,
          firstItemAlign: FirstItemAlign.end));
}

Notice: Keep positoin need implement onItemKey, the onItemKey used to identify the unique of item. The key should difference with other items’ key.
We use the key to know what position you insert to current list. if you insert a item before the rendered item, package should increase the scrollOffset.

Sticky header

Widget _renderHeader(String text) {
  return Container(
    color: const Color(0xFFF3F4F5),
    child: Padding(
      padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 16.0, vertical: 12.0),
      child: Text(
        text,
        style: const TextStyle(fontSize: 18, color: Color(0xFF767676)),
      ),
    ),
  );
}

Widget _renderItem(CountryModel itemData) {
  return Padding(
      padding: const EdgeInsets.only(right: 12.0),
      child: ListTile(
          title: Text(itemData.name), trailing: Text(itemData.phoneCode)));
}

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return Scaffold(
    appBar: AppBar(title: const Text("Stick Header")),
    body: FlutterListView(
        delegate: FlutterListViewDelegate(
          (BuildContext context, int index) {
            var data = _countries[index];
            if (data is AlphabetHeader) {
              return _renderHeader(data.alphabet);
            } else {
              return _renderItem(data as CountryModel);
            }
          },
          childCount: _countries.length,
          onItemSticky: (index) => _countries[index] is AlphabetHeader,
        ),
        controller: controller),
  );
}

You can also check doc/stickyHeader.md

Integrate pull_to_refresh

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return Scaffold(
    appBar: AppBar(
      title: const Text("Intergrate pull to refresh in list"),
    ),
    body: SmartRefresher(
      enablePullDown: true,
      enablePullUp: true,
      header: const WaterDropHeader(),
      footer: CustomFooter(
        builder: (context, mode) {
          Widget body;
          if (mode == LoadStatus.idle) {
            body = const Text("pull up load");
          } else if (mode == LoadStatus.loading) {
            body = const CupertinoActivityIndicator();
          } else if (mode == LoadStatus.failed) {
            body = const Text("Load Failed!Click retry!");
          } else if (mode == LoadStatus.canLoading) {
            body = const Text("release to load more");
          } else {
            body = const Text("No more Data");
          }
          return SizedBox(
            height: 55.0,
            child: Center(child: body),
          );
        },
      ),
      controller: _refreshController,
      onRefresh: _onRefresh,
      onLoading: _onLoading,
      child: FlutterListView(
          delegate: FlutterListViewDelegate(
        (BuildContext context, int index) =>
            ListTile(title: Text('List Item ${data[index]}')),
        childCount: data.length,
      )),
    ),
  );
}

GitHub

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