Easy Search Bar

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A Flutter plugin to help you handle search inside your application. Can be used inside appBar or inside your application body depending on your necessities.

Preview

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Installation

In the pubspec.yaml of your flutter project, add the following dependency:

dependencies:
  ...
  easy_search_bar: ^2.5.0

Migrating from 1.x.x to 2.x.x

Now instead of using the EasySearchBar widget inside AppBar widget, you can replace the AppBar with it.

This is what you used before:

Scaffold(
  appBar: AppBar(
    title: EasySearchBar(
      title: 'Example',
      onSearch: (value) => setState(() => searchValue = value)
    )
  )
)

And this is what it is supposed to look like now:

Scaffold(
  appBar: EasySearchBar(
    title: Text('Example'),
    onSearch: (value) => setState(() => searchValue = value)
  )
)

Basic example with suggestions

You can create a simple searchbar example widget with suggestions with the following example:

import 'package:easy_search_bar/easy_search_bar.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() {
  runApp(const MyHomePage());
}

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

  @override
  State<MyHomePage> createState() => _MyHomePageState();
}

class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
  String searchValue = '';
  final List<String> _suggestions = ['Afeganistan', 'Albania', 'Algeria', 'Australia', 'Brazil', 'German', 'Madagascar', 'Mozambique', 'Portugal', 'Zambia'];

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return  MaterialApp(
      title: 'Example',
      theme: ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.orange
      ),
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: EasySearchBar(
          title: const Text('Example'),
          onSearch: (value) => setState(() => searchValue = value),
          suggestions: _suggestions
        ),
        drawer: Drawer(
          child: ListView(
            padding: EdgeInsets.zero,
            children: [
              const DrawerHeader(
                decoration: BoxDecoration(
                  color: Colors.blue,
                ),
                child: Text('Drawer Header'),
              ),
              ListTile(
                title: const Text('Item 1'),
                onTap: () => Navigator.pop(context)
              ),
              ListTile(
                title: const Text('Item 2'),
                onTap: () => Navigator.pop(context)
              )
            ]
          )
        ),
        body: Center(
          child: Text('Value: $searchValue')
        )
      )
    );
  }
}

Note: If you want to create a FloatingAppBar and want the body content to go behind the AppBar you need to set extendBodyBehindAppBar Scaffold property to true. And it's also recommended to wrap your Scaffold inside a SafeArea.

API

Attribute Type Required Description Default value
title Widget :heavy_check_mark: The title to be displayed inside AppBar
onSearch Function(String) :heavy_check_mark: Returns the current search value.When search is closed, this method returns an empty value to clear the current search
actions List<Widget> :x: Extra custom actions that can be displayed inside AppBar
leading Widget :x: Can be used to add leading icon to AppBar
backgroundColor Color :x: Can be used to change AppBar background color
foregroundColor Color :x: Can be used to change AppBar foreground color
elevation double :x: Can be used to change AppBar elevation 5
iconTheme IconThemeData :x: Can be used to set custom icon theme for AppBar icons
appBarHeight double :x: Can be used to change AppBar height 56
animationDuration Duration :x: Can be used to set a duration for the AppBar search show and hide animation Duration(milliseconds: 450)
isFloating bool :x: Can be used to determine if it will be a normal or floating AppBar false
openOverlayOnSearch bool :x: Can be used to determine if the suggestions overlay will be opened when clicking search false
titleTextStyle TextStyle :x: Can be used to set the AppBar title style
searchBackgroundColor Color :x: Can be used to set the search input background color
searchCursorColor Color :x: Can be used to set search textField cursor color
searchHintText String :x: Can be used to set search textField hint text
searchHintStyle TextStyle :x: Can be used to set search textField hint style
searchTextStyle TextStyle :x: Can be used to set search textField text style
searchTextKeyboardType KeyboardType :x: Can be used to set search textField keyboard type
searchBackIconTheme IconThemeData :x: Can be used to set custom icon theme for the search textField back button
systemOverlayStyle SystemUiOverlayStyle :x: Can be used to set SystemUiOverlayStyle to the AppBar
suggestions List<String> :x: Can be used to create a suggestions list
asyncSuggestions Future<List<String>> Function(String value) :x: Can be used to set async suggestions list
suggestionsElevation double :x: Can be used to change suggestion list elevation 5
suggestionLoaderBuilder Widget Function() :x: A function that can be used to create a widget to display a custom suggestions loader
suggestionTextStyle TextStyle :x: Can be used to change the suggestions text style
suggestionBackgroundColor Color :x: Can be used to change suggestions list background color
suggestionBuilder Widget Function(String data) :x: Can be used to create custom suggestion item widget
onSuggestionTap Function(String data) :x: Instead of using the default suggestion tap action that fills the textField, you can set your own custom action for it
debounceDuration Duration :x: Can be used to set the debounce time for async data fetch Duration(milliseconds: 400)
showClearSearchIcon bool :x: Can be used to show search clear textField button false
searchClearIconTheme IconThemeData :x: Can be used to set custom icon theme for the search clear textField button
searchTextDirection TextDirection :x: Can be used to change text direction TextDirection.ltr
putActionsOnRight bool :x: Can be used to determine if the actions button will be placed at right of the appbar false

Issues & Suggestions

If you encounter any issue you or want to leave a suggestion you can do it by filling an issue.

Contributions

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Thank you for the support!