Flutter: How to hide or show more text within certain length

Question

My Container having a description about movies.

Initially i want to show only few lines of description. And below to that there should be a link (more...

Answer 1

you can do that this way

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

void main() => runApp(new MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new MaterialApp(
      title: 'Flutter Demo',
      home: new HomeScreen(),
    );
  }
}

class HomeScreen extends StatelessWidget {
  final String description =
      "Flutter is Google’s mobile UI framework for crafting high-quality native interfaces on iOS and Android in record time. Flutter works with existing code, is used by developers and organizations around the world, and is free and open source.";

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Scaffold(
      appBar: new AppBar(
        title: const Text("Demo App"),
      ),
      body: new Container(
        child: new DescriptionTextWidget(text: description),
      ),
    );
  }
}

class DescriptionTextWidget extends StatefulWidget {
  final String text;

  DescriptionTextWidget({@required this.text});

  @override
  _DescriptionTextWidgetState createState() => new _DescriptionTextWidgetState();
}

class _DescriptionTextWidgetState extends State {
  String firstHalf;
  String secondHalf;

  bool flag = true;

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();

    if (widget.text.length > 50) {
      firstHalf = widget.text.substring(0, 50);
      secondHalf = widget.text.substring(50, widget.text.length);
    } else {
      firstHalf = widget.text;
      secondHalf = "";
    }
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Container(
      padding: new EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 10.0, vertical: 10.0),
      child: secondHalf.isEmpty
          ? new Text(firstHalf)
          : new Column(
              children: [
                new Text(flag ? (firstHalf + "...") : (firstHalf + secondHalf)),
                new InkWell(
                  child: new Row(
                    mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.end,
                    children: [
                      new Text(
                        flag ? "show more" : "show less",
                        style: new TextStyle(color: Colors.blue),
                      ),
                    ],
                  ),
                  onTap: () {
                    setState(() {
                      flag = !flag;
                    });
                  },
                ),
              ],
            ),
    );
  }
}