flutter_instagram_stories

If you need a help to implement stories in your app, contact me https://github.com/awaik

A Flutter package for displaying stories just like Whatsapp & Instagram. Built-in groups (multiple stories with one icon), cache, video, gifs.

The package can be used in any app for displaying news, educational content and etc. Look the sample app here.

Note: This package is under active development, and there are some known bugs and a lot of features to implement. Please, add issues or feature requests here: issue

The project was initially copied from https://github.com/blackmann/story_view - great thanks for this excellent package. In case, you need more flexible functionality, you can check the original repository.

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Important notes:

For now, the package works with Firebase only.
This is a first beta version, please add all issues and feature requests here: issue

Features

Only one line of code to implement this package to the app.
Display images, gifs, videos.
Adjustable titles on icons.
Preliminary caching after app started.
Multilanguage support.
Callback when a user closed stories - helps to implement subscriptions after first launch and etc.

Installing

Look how to install here https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_instagram_stories#-installing-tab-

Now in your Dart code, you can use:

import 'package:flutter_instagram_stories/flutter_instagram_stories.dart';

iOS

For playing video, the package uses official video_player https://pub.dev/packages/video_player

From documentation:

Warning: The video_player plugin doesn’t work on iOS simulators. You must test videos on real iOS devices.
For iOS, add the following to the Info.plist file found at

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
  <dict>
    <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
    <true/>
  </dict>

Usage

You can find a complete working example here https://github.com/awaik/flutter_instagram_stories/tree/master/example

Dart code

Connect to the collection where you keep stories

    static String collectionDbName = 'instagram_stories_db';
    CollectionReference dbInstance =
      Firestore.instance.collection(collectionDbName);

And add stories full functionality to your app.

    FlutterInstagramStories(
        collectionDbName: collectionDbName,
        showTitleOnIcon: true,
        backFromStories: () {
          _backFromStoriesAlert();
        },
        iconTextStyle: TextStyle(
          fontSize: 14.0,
          color: Colors.white,
        ),
        iconImageBorderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(15.0),
        iconBoxDecoration: BoxDecoration(
          borderRadius: BorderRadius.all(Radius.circular(15.0)),
          color: Color(0xFFffffff),
          boxShadow: [
            BoxShadow(
              color: Color(0xff333333),
              blurRadius: 10.0,
              offset: Offset(
                0.0,
                4.0,
              ),
            ),
          ],
        ),
        iconWidth: 150.0,
        iconHeight: 150.0,
        textInIconPadding:
            EdgeInsets.only(left: 8.0, right: 8.0, bottom: 12.0),
        //how long story lasts in seconds
        imageStoryDuration: 7,
        progressPosition: ProgressPosition.top,
        repeat: true,
        inline: false,
        languageCode: 'en',
        backgroundColorBetweenStories: Colors.black,
        closeButtonIcon: Icon(
          Icons.close,
          color: Colors.white,
          size: 28.0,
        ),
        closeButtonBackgroundColor: Color(0x11000000),
        sortingOrderDesc: true,
        lastIconHighlight: true,
        lastIconHighlightColor: Colors.deepOrange,
        lastIconHighlightRadius: const Radius.circular(15.0),
        captionTextStyle: TextStyle(
          fontSize: 22,
          color: Colors.white,
        ),
        captionMargin: EdgeInsets.only(
          bottom: 50,
        ),
        captionPadding: EdgeInsets.symmetric(
          horizontal: 24,
          vertical: 8,
        ),
      ),

Firestore database

The package works with Firestore database and package https://pub.dev/packages/cloud_firestore already included into the package.

You can use example with the sample database in the example folder, or, create your own database.

Steps to create:

Add Firebase to your app

Create Firestore database

Create a collection with any name. After you will use this name in dart code only once.
Create documents inside the collection with exact structure, like on the image below

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Important! Pay attention to array, map types. Otherwise you will have a null error https://github.com/awaik/flutter_instagram_stories/issues/20

Data structure

That's it! Now your app has instagram stories with caching and other powerful features.

Use cases in real apps

App for Android and iOS - https://lifext.app/

Lifext app