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ListView InDepth Review - Flutter



When we need widgets stacked up one below another, we use ListView. There are four ways in which you can use a ListView.

We will see each of them in use one by one.


First Method : Normally Calling ListView widget.



class HomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _HomePageState createState() => _HomePageState();
}

class _HomePageState extends State<HomePage> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: ListView(
        children: <Widget>[
          Container(
            color: Colors.red,
            child: Text('Element 1'),
          ),
          Container(
            color: Colors.blue,
            child: Text('Element 2'),
          ),
          Container(
            color: Colors.green,
            child: Text('Element 3'),
          ),
          Container(
            color: Colors.orange,
            child: Text('Element 4'),
          ),
        ],
      ),
    );
  }
}


So in FirstMethod we simply use ListView Widget and use the children property to add in the children's.

Second Method : Using ListView.builder()


class HomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _HomePageState createState() => _HomePageState();
}

class _HomePageState extends State<HomePage> {
  List<String> myList = ['Element 1', 'Element 2', 'Element 3', 'Element 4'];
  List<Color> mycolor = [Colors.red, Colors.blue, Colors.green, Colors.orange];
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: ListView.builder(
        itemCount: myList.length,
        itemBuilder: (context, index) {
          return Container(
            color: mycolor[index],
            child: Text(myList[index]),
          );
        },
      ),
    );
  }
}


In Second method we create list of widgets dynamically we need to pass the item count and create a build method which has two parameters
  1. Context
  2. Index
Context is basically the screen on which the item will be returned and index is basically a number using which we will access the list's. So let us take the list myList as mentioned in code, index will basically run through as 0, 1, 2 and 3 because we had set the count to the length of myList. suppose we set the item count to 2 then the index will run through 0 and 1. We use the index number to access the elements in the list but well you can do anything you like with it.

Third Method : Using ListView.separated()


class HomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _HomePageState createState() => _HomePageState();
}

class _HomePageState extends State<HomePage> {
  List<String> myList = ['Element 1', 'Element 2', 'Element 3', 'Element 4'];
  List<Color> mycolor = [Colors.red, Colors.blue, Colors.green, Colors.orange];
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: ListView.separated(
        itemCount: myList.length,
        itemBuilder: (context, index) {
          return Container(
            color: mycolor[index],
            child: Text(myList[index]),
          );
        },
        separatorBuilder: (BuildContext context, int index) {
          return Container(
            child: Text('This Widget is called to separate'),
          );
        },
      ),
    );
  }
}

ListView.separated provides us with another parameter which is a separatorBuilder. it also takes in a context and an index. The child is basically a separator which separates the list items.


Output for 1st & 2nd Method:


Output for 3rd Method:




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