How to add button to bottom navigation bar which hang out above - Flutter

Question

I have bottom navigation bar with center item that looks like on this picture:

How to implement such a thing in Flutter?

I found that every icon that I

Answer 1

Google recently added something called BottomAppBar and it provides a better way of doing this. Simply add BottomAppBar in the scaffold, create a navigation FAB, and add a label to the FAB if you want it to have text. Creates a result similar to this: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*SEYUo6sNrW0RoKxyrYCqbg.png.

Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return new Scaffold(
    appBar: AppBar(title: const Text('Tasks - Bottom App Bar')),
    floatingActionButton: FloatingActionButton.extended(
      elevation: 4.0,
      icon: const Icon(Icons.add),
      label: const Text('Add a task'),
      onPressed: () {},
    ),
    floatingActionButtonLocation: 
      FloatingActionButtonLocation.centerDocked,
    bottomNavigationBar: BottomAppBar(
      hasNotch: false,
      child: new Row(
        mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.max,
        mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.spaceBetween,
        children: <Widget>[
          IconButton(
            icon: Icon(Icons.menu),
            onPressed: () {},
          ),
          IconButton(
            icon: Icon(Icons.search),
            onPressed: () {},
          )
        ],
      ),
    ),
  );
}

Answer 2

You can also do this using FloatingActionButtonLocation and Expanded widget like this:

Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Scaffold(
      appBar: new AppBar(
        title: new Text(widget.title),
      ),
      body: _buildTodoList(),
      floatingActionButton: new FloatingActionButton(
        onPressed: _pushAddTodoScreen,
        tooltip: 'Increment',
        child: new Icon(Icons.add),
        elevation: 4.0,
      ),
      bottomNavigationBar: BottomAppBar(
        child: new Row(
          mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
          children: <Widget>[
            Expanded(child: IconButton(icon: Icon(Icons.home)),),
            Expanded(child: IconButton(icon: Icon(Icons.show_chart)),),
            Expanded(child: new Text('')),
            Expanded(child: IconButton(icon: Icon(Icons.tab)),),
            Expanded(child: IconButton(icon: Icon(Icons.settings)),),
          ],
        ),
      ),
      floatingActionButtonLocation: FloatingActionButtonLocation.centerDocked,
    );
  }

Preview:

Answer 3

You can a Stack to display widgets on the top of each others. Combined with the property overflow: Overflow.visible, and an alignment that fits your need.

The following example will achieve thing as in your picture : A floating button horizontally centered, top aligned with the bottom bar.

return new Scaffold(
  bottomNavigationBar: new Stack(
    overflow: Overflow.visible,
    alignment: new FractionalOffset(.5, 1.0),
    children: [
      new Container(
        height: 40.0,
        color: Colors.red,
      ),
      new Padding(
        padding: const EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 12.0),
        child: new FloatingActionButton(
          notchMargin: 24.0,
          onPressed: () => print('hello world'),
          child: new Icon(Icons.arrow_back),
        ),
      ),
    ],
  ),
);

Answer 4

In addition to the inputs by @Raunak, you can also use the "border" attribute of the FloatingActionButton to get a seamless border to generate the desired effect - code snippet is below:

Widget buildFab() {
  FloatingActionButton fab = FloatingActionButton(
    backgroundColor: Color(0xFF9966CC),
    child: Icon(Icons.add),
    shape: CircleBorder(
      side: BorderSide(
        color: Colors.white,
        width: 3.0,
      ),
    ),
    tooltip: "Add...",
    onPressed: () {
      print("fab is pressed!!!");
    }
  );

  return fab;
}

More better if you wrap the FAB inside a Material and add shadow effects to it - as below:

Material buildFabWithShadow() {
  return Material(
  shadowColor: Color(0x802196F3),
  shape: CircleBorder(), 
  elevation: 16.0,
  child: buildFab(),
);

When tried, I got the below for effect 1- please note that the Border width can be adjusted to your wish!