Flutter - How to make a column screen scrollable

Question

I\'m building a flutter app with a Login Screen. On focus on the text field(s), the screen is overflowed and i cannot scroll. I\'ve tried using a ListView.builder

Answer 1

The ListView solution should work, but at the time of writing, it suffers from the crash listed here. Another way to achieve the same thing without this crash is to use a SingleChildScrollView:

return new Container(
  child: new SingleChildScrollView(
    child: new Column(
      children: <Widget>[
        _showChild1(),
        _showChild2(),
        ...
        _showChildN()
      ]
    )
  )
);

Answer 2

There are two easy ways of doing it.

1. Wrap your Column in a SingleChildScrollView

   SingleChildScrollView(
     child: Column(
       children: [
         Text('First'),
         //... other children
         Text('Last'),
       ],
     ),
   )
   

2. Use ListView instead of Column.

   ListView(
     children: [
       Text('First'),
       //... other children
       Text('Last'),
     ],
   )
   

   This approach is simple to use, but you lose features like crossAxisAlignment and other benefits provided by Column, in that case, you can wrap your children widget inside Align and set alignment property.

---

Now you may have nested children which are further scrollable, in that case, you need to provide a fixed height to your children, you may use SizedBox for that, that's it.

For example:

ListView(
  children: [
    Text('First'),
    SizedBox(
      height: 100,
      child: ListView(...), // nested ScrollView
    ),
    Text('Last'),
  ],
)

Answer 3

Using SingleChildScrollView with Columns make your screen scrollable, and you can make your layout as above

Here is how can you do it

class MyHome extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    // TODO: implement build
    return Scaffold(
        backgroundColor: Colors.white,
        body: SafeArea(
          bottom: false,
          child: Container(
            padding: EdgeInsets.only(left: 15, right: 15),
            height: double.infinity,
            width: double.infinity,
            child: SingleChildScrollView(
                padding: EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 15),
                child: Column(
                  mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.end,
                  crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.center,
                  children: <Widget>[
                    SizedBox(
                      height: 200.0,
                    ),
                    Card(
                      elevation: 8.0,
                      child: Container(
                        padding: EdgeInsets.all(10.0),
                        child: Column(
                          children: <Widget>[
                            TextField(
                              decoration: InputDecoration(
                                prefixIcon: Icon(Icons.person),
                                labelText: "Username or Email",
                              ),
                            ),
                            SizedBox(
                              height: 15.0,
                            ),
                            TextField(
                              decoration: InputDecoration(
                                prefixIcon: Icon(Icons.lock),
                                labelText: "Password",
                              ),
                            ),
                            SizedBox(
                              height: 30.0,
                            ),
                            MaterialButton(
                                height: 50.0,
                                elevation: 5,
                                minWidth: 300,
                                onPressed: () {},
                                shape: RoundedRectangleBorder(
                                  borderRadius: new BorderRadius.circular(30.0),
                                ),
                                color: Theme.of(context).primaryColor,
                                disabledColor: Theme.of(context)
                                    .primaryColor
                                    .withOpacity(0.50),
                                disabledElevation: 0,
                                child: Text('SIGN IN',
                                    textAlign: TextAlign.center, style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white),))
                          ],
                        ),
                      ),
                    ),
                    SizedBox(
                      height: 25.0,
                    ),
                    Row(
                      children: <Widget>[
                        Expanded(child: Text("Don't Have a Account?")),
                        Text("Sign Up",
                            style: TextStyle(
                              color: Colors.blue,
                            )),
                      ],
                    ),
                    SizedBox(
                      height: 50.0,
                    ),
                    Align(
                      alignment: Alignment.bottomCenter,
                      child: Row(mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center, children: <Widget>[
                        Text(
                          'New to App?',
                          style: TextStyle(color: Colors.black87),
                        ),
                        SizedBox(
                          width: 5,
                        ),
                        GestureDetector(
                          onTap: () {
                          },
                          child: Text(
                            "REGISTER", style: TextStyle(
                            color: Colors.blue,
                          )
                          ),
                        ),
                      ]),
                    )
                  ],
                )),
          ),
        ));
  }
}

Answer 4

Wrap your column in SingleChildScrollView and then wrap SingleChildScrollView in a Center widget to center the widgets in the column.

Center(
    child: SingleChildScrollView(
        child: Column(
        children: [
            Text('First'),
            //... other children
            Text('Last'),
        ],
    ),
)

Answer 5

try this Code: Its Using ListView

    class Home extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
     Widget build(BuildContext context) {
        // TODO: implement build
        return Scaffold(
          body: Center(
            child: ListView(
              shrinkWrap: true,
              padding: EdgeInsets.all(15.0),
              children: <Widget>[
                Center(
                  child: Card(
                    elevation: 8.0,
                    child: Container(
                      padding: EdgeInsets.all(10.0),
                      child: Column(
                        children: <Widget>[
                          TextField(
                            decoration: InputDecoration(
                              prefixIcon: Icon(Icons.person),
                              labelText: "Username or Email",
                            ),
                          ),
                          SizedBox(
                            height: 15.0,
                          ),
                          TextField(
                            decoration: InputDecoration(
                              prefixIcon: Icon(Icons.lock),
                              labelText: "Password",
                            ),
                          ),
                          SizedBox(
                            height: 15.0,
                          ),
                          Material(
                            borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(30.0),
                            //elevation: 5.0,
                            child: MaterialButton(
                              onPressed: () => {},
                              minWidth: 150.0,
                              height: 50.0,
                              color: Color(0xFF179CDF),
                              child: Text(
                                "LOGIN",
                                style: TextStyle(
                                  fontSize: 16.0,
                                  color: Colors.white,
                                ),
                              ),
                            ),
                          )
                        ],
                      ),
                    ),
                  ),
                ),
                SizedBox(
                  height: 25.0,
                ),
                Row(
                  children: <Widget>[
                    Expanded(child: Text("Don't Have a Account?")),
                    Text("Sign Up",
                        style: TextStyle(
                          color: Colors.blue,
                        )),
                  ],
                ),
              ],
            ),
          ),
          bottomNavigationBar: Padding(
            padding: EdgeInsets.all(10.0),
            child: Row(
              mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
              children: <Widget>[
                Expanded(
                    child: RaisedButton(
                      padding: EdgeInsets.all(15.0),
                      onPressed: () {},
                      color: Colors.white,
                      shape: RoundedRectangleBorder(
                          borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(
                            32.0,
                          ),
                          side: BorderSide(color: Color(0xFF179CDF))),
                      child: Text(
                        "SKIP SIGN UP FOR NOW",
                        style:
                        TextStyle(fontSize: 18.0, color: Color(0xFF179CDF)),
                      ),
                    )),
              ],
            ),
          ),
        );
      }
    }