flutter_native_text_input 2.1.0

Native text input for Flutter. Currently iOS-only with the use of UITextView.

Native Text Input for Flutter

A text input widget built using the native UITextView on iOS and EditText on Android. For text view, please refer to flutter-native-text-view.

Android support is added in v2 🎉🎉🎉

For existing project(s) using v1, please refer to migration guide here.

Installation

Follow the instructions from https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_native_text_input/install

Why you should use this

Many mobile app users are used to the subtle features provided by the native iOS or Android systems. Even though Flutter provides a lot of useful widgets, many Flutter developers will notice that TextField or CupertinoTextField provided by Flutter are not on par with their native counterpart.

The above shows just one of the missing text editing features in Flutter's TextField, when comparing to the native iOS UITextView. Features like these are especially important if you're building an app that involves a lot of text composition (messaging, editing document, and so on).

To address this, this package simply wraps the native UITextView (and EditText for Android) as a Flutter widget.

Hope you find it useful and happy coding! 🎉🎉🎉

Plugin API

Name	Type	Description	Default
controller	TextEditingController	Controlling the text being edited (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/controller.html)	null
decoration	BoxDecoration	Controls the BoxDecoration of the box behind the text input (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/cupertino/CupertinoTextField/decoration.html)	null
focusNode	FocusNode	Defines the keyboard focus for this widget (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/focusNode.html)	null
iosOptions	IosOptions	iOS only options (cursorColor, keyboardAppearance)	null
keyboardType	KeyboardType	Type of keyboard to display for a given text-based view (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uikeyboardtype)	KeyboardType.defaultType
maxLines	int	The maximum number of lines to show at one time, wrapping if necessary (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/maxLines.html)	1
minHeightPadding	double	Extra vertical spacing added in addition to line height for iOS UITextView to fit well in single line mode	18.0
minLines	int	Minimum number of lines of text input widget	1
placeholder	String	Placeholder text when text entry is empty (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/cupertino/CupertinoTextField/placeholder.html)	null
placeholderColor	Color	The text color to use for the placeholder text	null
returnKeyType	ReturnKeyType	Constants that specify the text string that displays in the Return key of a keyboard (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uireturnkeytype)	ReturnKeyType.defaultAction
style	TextStyle	The style to use for the text being edited [Only fontSize, fontWeight, color are supported] (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/style.html)	null
textAlign	TextAlign	How the text should be aligned horizontally (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/textAlign.html)	TextAlign.start
textCapitalization	TextCapitalization	Configures how the platform keyboard will select an uppercase or lowercase keyboard (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/textCapitalization.html)	TextCapitalization.none
textContentType	TextContentType	To identify the semantic meaning expected for a text-entry area (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitextcontenttype)	null
onChanged	ValueChanged<String>	Called when the user initiates a change to text entry (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/onChanged.html)	null
onEditingComplete	VoidCallback?	Called when the user submits editable content (e.g., user presses the "done" button on the keyboard) (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/onEditingComplete.html)	null
onSubmitted	ValueChanged<String>	Called when the user indicates that they are done editing the text in the field (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/onSubmitted.html)	null

IosOptions

Name	Type	Description	Default
cursorColor	Color	The color of the cursor (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/cursorColor.html)	null
keyboardAppearance	Brightness	The appearance of the keyboard (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/TextField/keyboardAppearance.html)	null
placeholderStyle	TextStyle	The style to use for the placeholder text. [Only fontSize, fontWeight are supported] (https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/cupertino/CupertinoTextField/placeholderStyle.html)	null

More examples

You may find more usage examples here.

Contributing

Found a bug?

Please do not hestitate to report that. This cuuld help improve this package.

Feature request?

Please feel free to create an issue.

Pull request?

Contributors are welcome. Just create a PR and it would be reviewed and merged ASAP.

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.