responsive_window 1.0.1

A lightweight app-level responsive window utility for Flutter, with Material Design 3-inspired width breakpoints.

A lightweight app-level utility for reading the current Flutter app window size from anywhere in the widget tree.

Use it to make simple and predictable layout decisions based on window size or responsive width breakpoints, without scaling widgets or detecting physical device types.

Features

• App-level responsive window scope for Flutter apps
• Material Design 3-inspired width breakpoints
• Supports compact, medium, expanded, large, and extraLarge
• Access responsive window data from BuildContext
• Provides responsive window category and boolean helpers
• Provides window width, height, and Flutter Size
• Customizable breakpoints
• Uses Flutter widgets only, with no dependency on Material widgets
• Does not control native desktop windows

Default Breakpoints

ResponsiveWindow uses Material Design 3-inspired width breakpoints by default.

The responsive category is based on the available app window width. It does not detect the physical device type.

A desktop window resized to a narrow width can be classified as compact. A wide tablet or desktop window can be classified as expanded, large, or extraLarge.

Category	Width
compact	< 600
medium	>= 600 && < 840
expanded	>= 840 && < 1200
large	>= 1200 && < 1600
extraLarge	>= 1600

Reference: Material Design 3 breakpoints.

Usage

Wrap your app

Place ResponsiveWindow above your root app widget.

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

void main() {
  runApp(
    const ResponsiveWindow(
      child: MaterialApp(
        home: HomePage(),
      ),
    ),
  );
}

ResponsiveWindow should usually wrap MaterialApp, CupertinoApp, or WidgetsApp.

Read window data

Use context.windowData to read the current responsive window data.

import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
import 'package:responsive_window/responsive_window.dart';

class HomePage extends StatelessWidget {
  const HomePage({super.key});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    final ResponsiveWindowData windowData = context.windowData;

    if (windowData.isCompact) {
      return const CompactLayout();
    }

    if (windowData.isMedium) {
      return const MediumLayout();
    }

    if (windowData.isExpanded) {
      return const ExpandedLayout();
    }

    if (windowData.isLarge) {
      return const LargeLayout();
    }

    return const ExtraLargeLayout();
  }
}

Available properties and helpers:

• windowData.width
• windowData.height
• windowData.category
• windowData.size
• windowData.isCompact
• windowData.isMedium
• windowData.isExpanded
• windowData.isLarge
• windowData.isExtraLarge

windowData.size returns the current app window dimensions as a Flutter Size.

Use the responsive category

windowData.category returns the current responsive category as a ResponsiveWindowCategory.

Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  final ResponsiveWindowData windowData = context.windowData;

  switch (windowData.category) {
    case ResponsiveWindowCategory.compact:
      return const CompactLayout();

    case ResponsiveWindowCategory.medium:
      return const MediumLayout();

    case ResponsiveWindowCategory.expanded:
      return const ExpandedLayout();

    case ResponsiveWindowCategory.large:
      return const LargeLayout();

    case ResponsiveWindowCategory.extraLarge:
      return const ExtraLargeLayout();
  }
}

Custom breakpoints

You can customize the width breakpoints when wrapping your app.

const ResponsiveWindow(
  compactBreakpoint: 640,
  mediumBreakpoint: 900,
  expandedBreakpoint: 1280,
  largeBreakpoint: 1680,
  child: App(),
)

Breakpoints must be ordered from smallest to largest.

Native Windows

ResponsiveWindow does not control the native platform window.

It only measures the available Flutter layout constraints and provides responsive window data to the widget subtree.

For desktop apps, use a dedicated window management package when you need to configure the physical window size, minimum size, title, or position.

Extension Conflicts

This package exposes a BuildContext extension that enables:

final ResponsiveWindowData windowData = context.windowData;

If another imported extension also exposes a windowData getter on BuildContext, calling context.windowData may become ambiguous in that file.

In that case, hide this package extension from the import:

import 'package:responsive_window/responsive_window.dart'
    hide BuildContextResponsiveWindow;

Then use the core API directly:

final ResponsiveWindowData windowData = ResponsiveWindowData.of(context);

Additional Information

Issues and feature requests can be reported on GitHub.

Contributions are welcome.

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