how to set CupertinoSegmentedControl height?

Question

I am trying to use CupertinoSegmentedControl from the flutter Cupertino library in the AppBar using the bottom attribute to achieve the follow

Answer 1

Is something like that similar to the layout that you want? (Removing the green color of course ^_^)

Play around with the Container and PreferredSize heights to adjust the height to fit your needs.

Scaffold(
    appBar: AppBar(
        elevation: 2,
        backgroundColor: Colors.white,
        centerTitle: true,
        title:
            Text(this.widget.title, style: TextStyle(color: Colors.black)),
        bottom: PreferredSize(
            child: Row(
              children: [
                Expanded(
                  child: Container(
                    height: 48,
                    color: Colors.lightGreenAccent,
                    child: CupertinoSegmentedControl(
                        children: children,
                        groupValue: this._selectedTab,
                        onValueChanged: (value) {
                          this.setState(() => this._selectedTab = value);
                        }),
                  ),
                )
              ],
            ),
            preferredSize: Size(double.infinity, 48))),
    body: Center(
        child: Column(
        mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
        children: [
          Text('hello')
        ]
        )
    )
);

UPDATE:

As kazimad pointed out, if you want to increase the segmented control height and not only add padding to it insiede the app bar, you can add a Padding widget to your tabs, like that:

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
          elevation: 2,
          backgroundColor: Colors.white,
          centerTitle: true,
          title:
              Text(this.widget.title, style: TextStyle(color: Colors.black)),
          bottom: PreferredSize(
              child: Padding(
                padding: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 8, bottom: 12),
                child: Row(
                  children: <Widget>[
                    SizedBox(width: 24),
                    Expanded(
                      child: CupertinoSegmentedControl(
                          children: const <int, Widget>{
                            0: Padding(
                                padding: EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
                                child: Text('Midnight')),
                            1: Padding(
                                padding: EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
                                child: Text('Viridian')),
                            2: Padding(
                                padding: EdgeInsets.all(8.0),
                                child: Text('Cerulean'))
                          },
                          groupValue: this._selectedTab,
                          onValueChanged: (value) {
                            // TODO: - fix it
                          }),
                    ),
                    SizedBox(width: 24)
                  ],
                ),
              ),
              preferredSize: Size(double.infinity, 48))),
      body: Center(
          child: Column(
              mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
              children: [Text('hello')])));
}

Answer 2

just add Padding widget, or margin property to Container and wrap your Widgets in your "tabs" collection (in you case it is this.widget.tabs) with it

in my case

CupertinoSegmentedControl<int>(
            children: segmentTextWidgets,
            ...
          ),


final Map<int, Widget> segmentTextWidgets = <int, Widget>{
    0: Container(
      margin: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 16),
      child: Text("Tab 1 title"),
    ),
    1: Container(
      margin: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 16),
      child: Text("Tab 2 title"),
    ),
  };