Flutter Tutorial for Beginners 14 – Expanded Widgets

Introduction:
Welcome back to our Flutter Tutorial for Beginners series! In previous tutorials, we’ve explored various layout concepts, including rows, columns, and containers, to create dynamic and flexible user interfaces. In this tutorial, we’ll dive deeper into the concept of Expanded widgets and how they can help you create responsive and adaptable layouts in Flutter.

Understanding Expanded Widgets

An Expanded widget is a powerful layout widget in Flutter that expands to fill the available space within its parent. It’s commonly used within rows or columns to allocate extra space to specific widgets based on their proportions.

External Resource:

• Expanded Class – Flutter Documentation

Here’s a basic example of using an Expanded widget:

Row(
  children: [
    Container(color: Colors.red, width: 50),
    Expanded(
      child: Container(color: Colors.blue),
    ),
    Container(color: Colors.green, width: 50),
  ],
)

In this code, the Expanded widget takes up the available space between the red and green containers, causing the blue container to expand to fill the remaining space.

Flex Factors

You can control the proportions of expanded widgets using flex factors. The larger the flex factor, the more space the widget occupies relative to other expanded widgets.

Row(
  children: [
    Expanded(flex: 1, child: Container(color: Colors.red)),
    Expanded(flex: 2, child: Container(color: Colors.blue)),
    Expanded(flex: 1, child: Container(color: Colors.green)),
  ],
)

In this code, the blue container has a flex factor of 2, causing it to take up twice as much space as the red and green containers.

Using Expanded with Columns

You can apply the same principles to columns to create responsive vertical layouts.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You’ve learned how to use Expanded widgets to create responsive and adaptable layouts in your Flutter app. By understanding flex factors and how to use Expanded widgets within rows and columns, you have a powerful tool for building dynamic user interfaces that adjust to different screen sizes.

In the next part of our Flutter Tutorial for Beginners series, we’ll explore more advanced layout concepts and introduce you to the Stack and Align widgets, allowing you to create overlapping and aligned UI elements.

Stay tuned for more exciting Flutter adventures!

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