A Highly Customizable Simple and Easy to Use Flutter Widget To Add A Searchfield To Your Flutter

SearchField: ^0.3.0

A highly customizable simple and easy to use flutter Widget to add a searchfield to your Flutter Application.This Widget allows you to search and select from list of suggestions.

Think of this widget like a dropdownButton field with an ability

  • to Search 🔍.
  • to define height of each Suggestion Item
  • to define max number of items visible in the viewport 📱
  • to completely customize the input searchfield like a normal textfield
  • to customize the suggestions with colors and gradients

list of all the properties mentioned below

Supported Platforms

  • Android
  • Ios
  • Web
  • Macos

Getting Started

Installation

  • Add the dependency
dependencies:
  searchfield: ^0.3.0

  • Import the package
import 'package:searchfield/searchfield.dart';

Use the Widget

Example1
 SearchField(
    suggestions: [
    'United States',
    'America',
    'Washington',
    'India',
    'Paris',
    'Jakarta',
    'Australia',
    'Lorem Ipsum'
    ],
),

Example2 (Validation)
Form(
   key: _formKey,
   child: SearchField(
   suggestions: _statesOfIndia,
   hint: 'SearchField Sample 2',
   searchStyle: TextStyle(
                  fontSize: 18,
                  color: Colors.black.withOpacity(0.8),
               ),
   validator: (x) {
      if (!_statesOfIndia.contains(x) || x.isEmpty) {
            return 'Please Enter a valid State';
      }
      return null;
      },
   searchInputDecoration:
         InputDecoration(
            focusedBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
            borderSide: BorderSide(
            color: Colors.black.withOpacity(0.8),
         ),
   ),
   border: OutlineInputBorder(
   borderSide: BorderSide(color: Colors.red),
   ),
   ),
   maxSuggestionsInViewPort: 6,
   itemHeight: 50,
   onTap: (x) {
      print(x);
   },
 ),
),

Properties

  • controller: TextEditing Controller to interact with the searchfield.
  • suggestions : list of Strings to search from.(Mandatory)
  • initialValue : The initial value to be set in searchfield when its rendered, if not specified it will be empty.
  • onTap : callback when a sugestion is tapped it also returns the tapped value.
  • hint : hint for the search Input.
  • searchStyle : textStyle for the search Input.
  • suggestionStyle : textStyle for the SuggestionItem.
  • searchInputDecoration : decoration for the search Input similar to built in textfield widget.
  • suggestionsDecoration : decoration for suggestions List with ability to add box shadow background color and much more.
  • ``suggestionItemDecoration` : decoration for suggestionItem with ability to add color and gradient in the background.
  • itemHeight : height of each suggestion Item, (defaults to 35.0).
  • marginColor : Color for the margin between the suggestions.
  • maxSuggestionsInViewPort : The max number of suggestions that can be shown in a viewport.

Contributing

You are welcome to contribute to this package,contribution doesnt necessarily mean sending a pull request it could be

  • pointing out bugs/issues
  • requesting a new feature
  • improving the documentation

If you feel generous and confident send a PR but make sure theres an open issue if not feel free to create one before you send a PR. This helps Identify the problem and helps everyone to stay aligned with the issue :)

Download Details:

Author: maheshmnj

Source Code: https://github.com/maheshmnj/searchfield

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A Highly Customizable Simple and Easy to Use Flutter Widget To Add A Searchfield To Your Flutter
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