Category: Lists & Grids
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Best Practices for Lists and Grids
Lists and grids are the backbone of many mobile applications. Whether you are building a shopping app, a news feed, or a gallery, these widgets help display large amounts of structured content in a scrollable and interactive format. Flutter provides powerful widgets such as ListView, GridView, and their builder counterparts to make creating lists and…
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Infinite Scrolling and Pagination
Modern mobile applications deal with large datasets — news feeds, product listings, chat messages, search results, social media timelines. Loading all of this data at once is inefficient and leads to poor performance. Instead, developers use infinite scrolling and pagination techniques. With infinite scrolling, the app fetches more data when the user scrolls to the…
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ListView with JSON / API Data
Displaying dynamic data is one of the most important tasks in modern mobile applications. Whether it’s a list of products, news articles, or user profiles, apps often rely on external APIs that return data in JSON format. Flutter provides powerful tools to fetch, parse, and render API data seamlessly inside a ListView. In this guide,…
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Adding and Removing Items
Dynamic lists are a common requirement in mobile applications. From managing a shopping cart to handling a list of tasks in a to-do app, developers often need to allow users to add, remove, or update items in a list. Flutter makes this process simple and powerful with the combination of stateful widgets and the setState()…
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Horizontal ListView
When we think of lists in mobile applications, our first thought is usually vertical scrolling lists — a feed of posts, a chat history, or a list of contacts. But horizontal lists are just as important and often provide better UX for specific cases. Think about scrolling through product images, selecting categories in an e-commerce…
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ListView.separated for Dividers in Flutter
When building mobile applications in Flutter, lists are one of the most common UI patterns. Whether it’s displaying messages in a chat, rendering items in an e-commerce catalog, or showing a list of settings, developers rely heavily on ListView. Flutter provides several constructors for ListView, such as: This article explores ListView.separated in depth, focusing on:…
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ListView.builder Explained
When building modern mobile applications, displaying lists of data is one of the most common tasks. Whether you’re showing a feed of posts, a list of products, or search results, your app will often need to handle dynamic and potentially large lists of items. In Flutter, the ListView widget is the go-to solution for scrollable…
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Introduction to ListView in Flutter
Flutter is one of the most powerful frameworks for building cross-platform mobile applications. One of the most common UI patterns in almost every mobile app is displaying data in a scrollable list. Whether you are building a chat application, a news feed, a to-do list, or a product catalog, you will almost always use some…