flutterlayoutfooter

Web-like footer in Flutter


I'm trying to implement a simple web page view, with an appbar, a content and a footer. I'm struggling with the position of the footer.

What I want:

I saw several answers that helped me for the 2 first requirements (for instance How to create a scroll view with fixed footer with Flutter?), but not for the 3rd one: in the answers I found, the content does not take the whole available space, and sticks to the top.

The solution I found so far works: it has the behavior I want. But is not very elegant.

I used the following structure:

Scaffold(
    body: Column(
      mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
      children: <Widget>[
        SizedBox(
          height: 100,
          child: MyAppBar(),
        ),
        Expanded(
          child: SingleChildScrollView(
            child: Column(
              children: [
                SizedBox(height: bottomSizedBoxHeight),
                Column(
                  key: childrenColumnKey,
                  children: [
                    Container(color: Colors.red, width: 300, height: 300),
                    Container(color: Colors.green, width: 300, height: 300),
                    Container(color: Colors.amber, width: 300, height: 300),
                  ],
                ),
                SizedBox(height: bottomSizedBoxHeight),
                const SizedBox(
                  height: 150,
                  child: MyFooter(),
                ),
              ],
            ),
          ),
        ),
      ],
    ),
  );

Here you can see 2 SizedBox, with a height, computed at Runtime.

Here is the calculation:

@override
void didChangeDependencies() {
  super.didChangeDependencies();
  scheduleMicrotask(() {
    double pageWidgetsHeight = childrenColumnKey.currentContext?.size?.height ?? 0;

    // Total height of space available is screen height - appBar (100) - footer (150)
    double totalHeight = max(0, MediaQuery.of(context).size.height - pageWidgetsHeight - 100 - 150);

    setState(() {
      topSizedBoxHeight = totalHeight / 2;
      bottomSizedBoxHeight = totalHeight / 2;
    });
  });
}

As you can see, not very elegant. I compute the total left space after the widgets have been built, to create 2 Boxes with the left amount space.

This gives me this result with only 1 red square:

Footer with 1 square

And this is when I add the other squares, the footer is correctly hidden:

footer is hidden

But I don't like the way I achieved this. If anyone has an idea on how to implement this!

Thanks!


Solution

  • I finally found a solution: using Slivers.

    Here is a code sample to achieve this:

    Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        title: Text('Title'),
      ),
      body: CustomScrollView(
        slivers: [
          SliverList(
            delegate: SliverChildListDelegate(
              [
                  Column(
                  children: [
                    Container(color: Colors.red, width: 300, height: 300),
                    Container(color: Colors.green, width: 300, height: 300),
                    Container(color: Colors.amber, width: 300, height: 300),
                  ],
                ),
              ],
            ),
          ),
          SliverFillRemaining(
            hasScrollBody: false,
            child: Align(
              alignment: Alignment.bottomCenter,
              child: Container(color: Colors.orange),
            ),
          )
        ],
      ),
    );