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

To get Exact Behavior like JQuery plugin. you need to use TextPainter and calculate the hight on given Width.

Expanded State

Normal State

import 'package:flutter/gestures.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/rendering.dart';
import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';

void main() => runApp(MaterialApp( home: DemoApp()));

class DemoApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text(
            'Read More Text',
          )),
      body:  SingleChildScrollView(
          child: Column(
            crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
            children: [
              Padding(
                padding: const EdgeInsets.all(16.0),
                child: ExpandableText(
                  'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Pellentesque scelerisque efficitur posuere. Curabitur tincidunt placerat diam ac efficitur. Cras rutrum egestas nisl vitae pulvinar. Donec id mollis diam, id hendrerit neque. Donec accumsan efficitur libero, vitae feugiat odio fringilla ac. Aliquam a turpis bibendum, varius erat dictum, feugiat libero. Nam et dignissim nibh. Morbi elementum varius elit, at dignissim ex accumsan a',
                   trimLines: 2,
                ),
              ),
            ],
          ),
        ),
    );
  }
}
class ExpandableText extends StatefulWidget {
  const ExpandableText(
      this.text, {
        Key key,
        this.trimLines = 2,
      })  : assert(text != null),
        super(key: key);

  final String text;
  final int trimLines;

  @override
  ExpandableTextState createState() => ExpandableTextState();
}

class ExpandableTextState extends State {
  bool _readMore = true;
  void _onTapLink() {
    setState(() => _readMore = !_readMore);
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    final DefaultTextStyle defaultTextStyle = DefaultTextStyle.of(context);
    final colorClickableText = Colors.blue;
    final widgetColor = Colors.black;
    TextSpan link = TextSpan(
      text: _readMore ? "... read more" : " read less",
      style: TextStyle(
        color: colorClickableText,
      ),
      recognizer: TapGestureRecognizer()..onTap = _onTapLink
    );
    Widget result = LayoutBuilder(
      builder: (BuildContext context, BoxConstraints constraints) {
        assert(constraints.hasBoundedWidth);
        final double maxWidth = constraints.maxWidth;
        // Create a TextSpan with data
        final text = TextSpan(
          text: widget.text,
        );
        // Layout and measure link
        TextPainter textPainter = TextPainter(
          text: link,
          textDirection: TextDirection.rtl,//better to pass this from master widget if ltr and rtl both supported
          maxLines: widget.trimLines,
          ellipsis: '...',
        );
        textPainter.layout(minWidth: constraints.minWidth, maxWidth: maxWidth);
        final linkSize = textPainter.size;
        // Layout and measure text
        textPainter.text = text;
        textPainter.layout(minWidth: constraints.minWidth, maxWidth: maxWidth);
        final textSize = textPainter.size;
        // Get the endIndex of data
        int endIndex;
        final pos = textPainter.getPositionForOffset(Offset(
            textSize.width - linkSize.width,
            textSize.height,
        ));
        endIndex = textPainter.getOffsetBefore(pos.offset);
        var textSpan;
        if (textPainter.didExceedMaxLines) {
          textSpan = TextSpan(
            text: _readMore
                ? widget.text.substring(0, endIndex)
                : widget.text,
            style: TextStyle(
              color: widgetColor,
            ),
            children: [link],
          );
        } else {
          textSpan = TextSpan(
            text: widget.text,
          );
        }
        return RichText(
          softWrap: true,
          overflow: TextOverflow.clip,
          text: textSpan,
        );
      },
    );
    return result;
  }
}