Stories like in Instagram written in Flutter

by Flutter Awesome

flutter_instagram_stories

A Flutter plugin for displaying stories just like Whatsapp & Instagram. Built-in groups (multiple stories with one icon), cache, video, gifs.

Plugin can be used in any app for displaying news, educational content and etc. Look the sample app here.

Note: This plugin is under active development, and there are some known bugs and a lot of features to implement. Please, add issues or feature requests here: issue

The project was initially copied from https://github.com/blackmann/story_view - great thanks for this nice package. In case you more flexible functionality you can check the original project.

Important notes:

  1. For now plugin works with Firebase only.
  2. This is first beta version, please add all issues and feature requests here: issue

Features

  • Only one line of code to implement this plugin to app.
  • Display images, gifs, videos.
  • Adjustable titles on icons.
  • Preliminary caching after app started.
  • Multilanguage support.
  • Callback when user closed stories - helps to implement subscriptions after first launch and etc.

Installing

Look how install here https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_instagram_stories#-installing-tab-

Now in your Dart code, you can use:

import 'package:flutter_instagram_stories/flutter_instagram_stories.dart';

iOS

For playing video plugin uses official video_player https://pub.dev/packages/video_player

From documentation:

  1. Warning: The video_player plugin doesn’t work on iOS simulators. You must test videos on real iOS devices.

  2. For iOS, add the following to the Info.plist file found at <project root>/ios/Runner/Info.plist.

NSAppTransportSecurity

NSAllowsArbitraryLoads

Usage

You can find complete working example here https://github.com/awaik/flutter_instagram_stories/tree/master/example

Dart code

Connect to collection where you keep stories

    static String collectionDbName = 'instagram_stories_db';
    CollectionReference dbInstance =
      Firestore.instance.collection(collectionDbName);

And add stories full functionality to your app.

    FlutterInstagramStories(
        collectionDbName: collectionDbName,
        showTitleOnIcon: true,
        backFromStories: () {
          _backFromStoriesAlert();
        },
        iconTextStyle: TextStyle(
          fontSize: 14.0,
          color: Colors.white,
        ),
        iconImageBorderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(15.0),
        iconBoxDecoration: BoxDecoration(
          borderRadius: BorderRadius.all(Radius.circular(15.0)),
          color: Color(0xFFffffff),
          boxShadow: [
            BoxShadow(
              color: Color(0xff333333),
              blurRadius: 10.0,
              offset: Offset(
                0.0,
                4.0,
              ),
            ),
          ],
        ),
        iconWidth: 150.0,
        iconHeight: 150.0,
        textInIconPadding:
            EdgeInsets.only(left: 8.0, right: 8.0, bottom: 12.0),
        //how long story lasts in seconds
        imageStoryDuration: 7,
        progressPosition: ProgressPosition.top,
        repeat: true,
        inline: false,
        languageCode: 'en',
        closeButtonIcon: Icon(
          Icons.close,
          color: Colors.blueGrey,
          size: 28.0,
        ),
        closeButtonBackgroundColor: Color(0x00ffffff),
      ),

Firestore database

Plugin works with Firestore database and package https://pub.dev/packages/cloud_firestore already included into plugin.

You can use example with sample database in example folder or create your own database.

Steps to create:

  1. Add Firebase to your app
  1. Create Firestore database
  • Create collection with any name. After you will use this name in dart code only once.
  • Create documents inside collection with exact structure, like on image below
    DateTime date;
    List file
       // for example
       // [{String filetype, String url}
       //  {String filetype, String url}
       //  ...]
    String previewImage;
    Map previewTitle
       // for example
       // {"en": someText, "anyLangCode": someText}

That's it! Now your app has instagram stories with caching and other powerful features.

Use cases in the real apps

App for Android and iOS - https://lifext.app/

GitHub

https://github.com/awaik/flutter_instagram_stories