Flutter SDK Set Background image

Question

I am trying to set a background image for the home page. I am getting the image place from start of the screen and filling the width but not the height. Am I missing someth

Answer 1

I was able to apply a background below the Scaffold (and even it's AppBar) by putting the Scaffold under a Stack and setting a Container in the first "layer" with the background image set and fit: BoxFit.cover property.

Both the Scaffold and AppBar has to have the backgroundColor set as Color.transparent and the elevation of AppBar has to be 0 (zero).

Voilà! Now you have a nice background below the whole Scaffold and AppBar! :)

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:mynamespace/ui/shared/colors.dart';
import 'package:mynamespace/ui/shared/textstyle.dart';
import 'package:mynamespace/ui/shared/ui_helpers.dart';
import 'package:mynamespace/ui/widgets/custom_text_form_field_widget.dart';

class SignUpView extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Stack( // <-- STACK AS THE SCAFFOLD PARENT
      children: [
        Container(
          decoration: BoxDecoration(
            image: DecorationImage(
              image: AssetImage("assets/images/bg.png"), // <-- BACKGROUND IMAGE
              fit: BoxFit.cover,
            ),
          ),
        ),
        Scaffold(
          backgroundColor: Colors.transparent, // <-- SCAFFOLD WITH TRANSPARENT BG
          appBar: AppBar(
            title: Text('NEW USER'),
            backgroundColor: Colors.transparent, // <-- APPBAR WITH TRANSPARENT BG
            elevation: 0, // <-- ELEVATION ZEROED
          ),
          body: Padding(
            padding: EdgeInsets.all(spaceXS),
            child: Column(
              children: [
                CustomTextFormFieldWidget(labelText: 'Email', hintText: 'Type your Email'),
                UIHelper.verticalSpaceSM,
                SizedBox(
                  width: double.maxFinite,
                  child: RaisedButton(
                    color: regularCyan,
                    child: Text('Finish Registration', style: TextStyle(color: white)),
                    onPressed: () => {},
                  ),
                ),
              ],
            ),
          ),
        ),
      ],
    );
  }
}