Flutter Badges Tutorial : Badges in Flutter

Flutter Badges Tutorial :

Flutter Badges Tutorial, Badges are the visual indicators they are shown on the screen stating the number of unread notifications, items added to cart and so on based on the app requirement.

Explore the power of Flutter badges for your mobile app development. Learn how to seamlessly integrate badges to notify users about updates, unread messages, and enhance overall engagement.

Dive into this comprehensive guide on Flutter badges, featuring practical examples and implementation tips.

Stay ahead in app development with our insights on Flutter badges and their impact on user experience.

Badges is a very good option to display or notify user that there is a message or update which is unread most of the social media apps use these to notify incoming messages.

It will be very difficult to use apps without badges because we cannot manually open each to know the updates that are coming on regular basis.

Almost all the apps uses these badges and are even tracked by analytics events to make sure how many people follow their app updates.

In this tutorial we will see the detailed explanation on this topic and also go through for the animations used in displaying the count on to screen.

pubspec.yaml :

Include the badges dependency in your project, and ensure that you update it to the latest available version.

dependencies:
  flutter:
    sdk: flutter
  cupertino_icons: ^1.0.2
  badges: ^3.1.2

Flutter Badges Tutorial (Video) :

In the video tutorial on Flutter Badges Tutorial below, you’ll discover a hands-on example of implementing a Flutter badge

main.dart :

Comprehensive code for implementing Flutter badges.

Specify a badge in your project in this way

badges.Badge( )

Specify the badge content

badgeContent: Text("$count"),

Animate using

badgeAnimation: badges.BadgeAnimation.scale(),

Here’s the entire code for implementing Flutter badges. Tailor the badge to match your app’s design preferences with easy customization

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:badges/badges.dart' as badges;

void main(){
  runApp(MyApp());
}

var count = 0;

class MyApp extends StatefulWidget {
  const MyApp({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  State<MyApp> createState() => _MyAppState();
}

class _MyAppState extends State<MyApp> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: const Text("badges"),
        ),
        body: Center(
          child: Column(
            mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
            children:  [
              TextButton(onPressed: (){
                setState(() {
                  count++;
                });

              }, child: const Text("increment")),
              badges.Badge(
                badgeAnimation: badges.BadgeAnimation.scale(),
                badgeContent: Text("$count"),
                child: const Icon(Icons.shopping_cart,
                size: 50,)
              )
            ],
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

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