Flutter App : The Drawer Manager class has the ability to swap Scaffold body contents, using a custom provider

The Drawer Manager class has the ability to swap Scaffold body contents, using a custom provider.

Open Drawer	Hello, Flutter!	Counter	The MAC	All Pages

Features

The Drawer Manager is similar to the Android Drawer, in that it swaps out Widgets (like Android Fragments). It does this by notifying the Scaffold body of the changes needed for your selection, using the DrawerManagerProvider’s body property. This approach allows for a cleaner development experience.

Note: Similar to Flutter’s TextEditingController, the Drawer Manager uses Provider‘s ChangeNotifier as a parent class to manage user selection by displaying the Widget selection.

Getting started

Install Provider and Drawer Manager

  flutter pub get provider
  flutter pub get drawer_manager

Or install Provider and Drawer Manager (in pubspec.yaml)

    
dependencies:
  flutter:
    sdk: flutter

    ...
  provider: 6.0.2
  drawer_manager: 0.0.3

Import Drawer Manager & Provider

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:provider/provider.dart';
import 'package:drawer_manager/drawer_manager.dart';
    ...

Add DrawerManagerProvider as MaterialApp ChangeNotifierProvider

Usage

Set up drawer selections

    const drawerSelections = [
      HelloPage(),
      CounterPage(),
      TheMACPage()
    ];

Set up drawer manager

The Drawer Manager is able to manage the selections with the DrawerTile class.

        drawer: DrawerManager(
            context: context,
            drawerElements: [
                const DrawerHeader(
                    child: Padding(
                        padding: EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 20),
                        child: Icon(Icons.account_circle),
                    ),
                ),
                DrawerTile(
                    context: context,
                    leading: const Icon(Icons.hail_rounded),
                    title: Text('Hello'),
                    onTap: () async {
                        // RUN A BACKEND Hello, Flutter OPERATION
                    },
                ),
                ...
            ],
            tileSelections: drawerSelections
        )

Note: The DrawerTile class is a child of ListTile, but has a required on onTap attribute, to maintain the selection order. The first DrawerTile will align with the first drawer selection. You can have more selections than tiles, but not more DrawerTiles than selections.

Alternate Usage

Alternatively, you can use a Column, or a ListView for drawer elements, to easily adapt Drawer Manager into existing Drawer implementations.

Use With a Column Widget

        drawer: DrawerManager(
            context: context,
            child: Column(
              crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.stretch,
              children: [
                  ...
              ]
            )
        )

Use With a ListView Widget

        drawer: DrawerManager(
            context: context,
            child: ListView(
              children: [
                  ...
              ]
            )
        )

Additional information

To support this repo, take a look at the SUPPORT.md file.

To view the documentation on the package, follow this link

GitHub

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