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dan
dan

Reputation: 1392

wrapping Scaffold with Container for gradient background, How to set gradient to container background in flutter?

I'd like to wrap a Scaffold with a Container in order to get a gradient background that's also underneath the AppBar. Basically a full screen gradient background. However, my attempt doesn't do anything. Is there another way of doing it, where I can keep the AppBar functionality but have it on top of a gradient that spans the whole screen?

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'Test',
      theme: ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.yellow,
      ),
      home: MyHomePage(title: 'Test'),
    );
  }
}

class MyHomePage extends StatelessWidget {
  MyHomePage({Key key, this.title}) : super(key: key);

  final String title;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Container(
      decoration: BoxDecoration(
        gradient: LinearGradient(
          begin: Alignment.topRight,
          end: Alignment.bottomLeft,
          stops: [0.1, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9],
          colors: [
            Colors.yellow[800],
            Colors.yellow[700],
            Colors.yellow[600],
            Colors.yellow[400],
          ],
        ),
      ),
      child: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: Icon(Icons.menu),
          backgroundColor: Color(0x00000000),
          elevation: 0.0,
        ),
        body: Center(
          child: Column(
            mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
            children: <Widget>[
              Text(
                'dummy text',
              ),
              Text(
                '5',
                style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.display1,
              ),
              FloatingActionButton(
                backgroundColor: Colors.white,
                foregroundColor: Colors.black45,
                elevation: 0.0,
                onPressed: () {},
                tooltip: 'Play',
                child: Icon(Icons.play_arrow),
              ),
            ],
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Upvotes: 87

Views: 169061

Answers (7)

Gabriel Pires Parreira
Gabriel Pires Parreira

Reputation: 49

You don't need to set the color twice in the appBar and in the Container, just set the appBar like this and they will have the same color:

appBar: AppBar(
  backgroundColor: Colors.transparent,
  elevation: 0, //this will make the shadow of the appBar disappear and show the exact color of the background you setted.
  //and here put the rest of the configurations you need for the appBar.
)

Upvotes: 0

tharindu_DG
tharindu_DG

Reputation: 9261

You can also add a gradient to the AppBar like this,

awesome app bar preview

new Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        title: Center(child: Text('Awesome AppBar')),
        flexibleSpace: Container(
          decoration: BoxDecoration(
            gradient: LinearGradient(
                colors: [
                  const Color(0xFF3366FF),
                  const Color(0xFF00CCFF),
                ],
                begin: const FractionalOffset(0.0, 0.0),
                end: const FractionalOffset(1.0, 0.0),
                stops: [0.0, 1.0],
                tileMode: TileMode.clamp),
          ),
        ),
        child: ...,
      ),
      body: ...,
    );

LinearGradient parameters:

  • colors: an array of the colors to be used in the gradient, in this case, two shades of blue.

  • begin, end: position of the first color and the last color, in this case,

  • FractionalOffset allows us to treat the coordinates as a range from 0 to 1 both for x and y. As we want an horizontal gradient, we use same Y for both measures, and the x changes from 0.0 (left) to 1.0 (right).

  • stops: this array should have the same size than colors. It defines how the colors will distribute. [0.0, 1.0] will fill it from left to right. [0.0, 0.5] will fill the colors from left to half bar, etc.

  • tileMode: what to do if the stops do not fill the whole area. In this case, we added clamp (it will reuse the last color used), but as our gradient goes from 0.0 to 1.0, it’s not really necessary.

  • You can also add a child to the Container. e.g: some logo image

        child: Align(
          alignment: Alignment.center,
          child: Image.asset(
            "images/logo.png",
            width: 128,
            height: 128,
          )),
    ),

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 109

Karan Vakharia
Karan Vakharia

Reputation: 87

You can use directly below code for gradient color of any container or view

class HomePage extends StatelessWidget {
 @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        title: Text("Dashboard"),
      ),
      body: Container(
         alignment: Alignment.center,
         decoration: BoxDecoration(
         gradient: LinearGradient(colors: [Colors.red, Colors.blue, Colors.black])
         )
       ),
    );
  }
}

Upvotes: 2

Quick learner
Quick learner

Reputation: 11457

I used this piece of code to set background color as a gradient

return MaterialApp(
        home: Scaffold(
          body: Container(
            decoration: new BoxDecoration(
                gradient: new LinearGradient(
                  begin: Alignment.topCenter,
                  end: Alignment.bottomCenter,
                  colors: [
                    Color.fromARGB(255, 25,178,238),
                    Color.fromARGB(255, 21,236,229)
                  ],
                )),
            child: Align(
                alignment: Alignment.center,
                child: Image.asset(
                  "images/app_logo.png",
                  width: 128,
                  height: 128,
                )),
          ),
        ),
      );

Upvotes: 19

Shubham Narkhede
Shubham Narkhede

Reputation: 2130

You simply use FlexibleSpace in the appbar

      appBar: AppBar(
      centerTitle: true,
      title: Text(widget.title),
      flexibleSpace: Container(
           decoration: BoxDecoration(
           gradient: LinearGradient(
           begin: Alignment.topLeft,
            end: Alignment.bottomRight,
            colors: <Color>[
              Colors.red,
              Colors.blue
            ])
           ),
          ),
         ),

Upvotes: 3

Sumit Singh
Sumit Singh

Reputation: 1258

Simply add FlexibleSpace in AppBar and Decorate the container. Then the app bar is a gradient in the background.

appBar: AppBar(

      title: Text('Flutter Demo'),
      flexibleSpace: Container(
        decoration: BoxDecoration(
          gradient: LinearGradient(
            begin: Alignment.centerLeft,
            end: Alignment.centerRight,
            colors: <Color>[
              Colors.red,
              Colors.blue
            ],
          ),
        ),
      ),
    ),

Upvotes: 21

anmol.majhail
anmol.majhail

Reputation: 51186

In Your Code - Under Scaffold add - backgroundColor: Colors.transparent,

child: Scaffold(
        backgroundColor: Colors.transparent,
        appBar: AppBar(
        ..

Upvotes: 50

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