Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Flutter plugin that allows you to showcase your features

A Flutter package allows you to Showcase/Highlight your widgets step by step.

It is inspired from Fluttery’s Flutter challange.

Preview

The example app running in Android

Installing

  1. Add dependency to pubspec.yamlGet the latest version in the ‘Installing’ tab on pub.dev
dependencies:
    showcaseview: ^0.1.5
  1. Import the package
import 'package:showcaseview/showcaseview.dart';
  1. Adding a ShowCaseWidget widget.
ShowCaseWidget(
  builder: Builder(
    builder : (context) ()=> Somewidget()
  ),
),
  1. Adding a Showcase widget.
GlobalKey _one = GlobalKey();
GlobalKey _two = GlobalKey();
GlobalKey _three = GlobalKey();

...

Showcase(
  key: _one,
  title: 'Menu',
  description: 'Click here to see menu options',
  child: Icon(
    Icons.menu,
    color: Colors.black45,
  ),
),

Some more optional parameters

Showcase(
  key: _two,
  title: 'Profile',
  description: 'Click here to go to your Profile',
  disableAnimation: true,
  shapeBorder: CircleBorder(),
  showArrow: false,
  slideDuration: Duration(milliseconds: 1500),
  tooltipColor: Colors.blueGrey,
  child: ...,
),
  1. Using a Showcase.withWidget widget.
Showcase.withWidget(
  key: _three,
  cHeight: 80,
  cWidth: 140,
  shapeBorder: CircleBorder(),
  container: Column(
    crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
    children: <Widget>[
      ...
    ],
  ),
  child: ...,
),
  1. Starting the ShowCase
someEvent(){
    ShowCaseWidget.startShowCase(context, [_one, _two, _three]);
}
  1. onFinish method for ShowCase
ShowCaseWidget(
  onFinish: () {
    // Your code goes here
  },
  builder: Builder(
    builder : (context) ()=> Somewidget()
  ),
),

If you want to start the ShowCaseView as soon as your UI built up then use below code.

WidgetsBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) =>
        ShowCaseWidget.startShowCase(context, [_one, _two, _three]));

How to use

Check out the example app in the example directory or the ‘Example’ tab on pub.dev for a more complete example.

Getting Started

This project is a starting point for a Dart package, a library module containing code that can be shared easily across multiple Flutter or Dart projects.

For help getting started with Flutter, view our online documentation, which offers tutorials, samples, guidance on mobile development, and a full API reference.