ExpansionTiles can used to produce two-level or multi-level lists.
This app displays hierarchical data with ExpansionTiles. Tapping a tile expands or collapses the view of its children. When a tile is collapsed its children are disposed so that the widget footprint of the list only reflects what’s visible.
When displayed within a scrollable that creates its list items lazily,
like a scrollable list created with ListView.builder()
, ExpansionTiles
can be quite efficient, particularly for Material Design “expand/collapse”
lists.
Try this app out by creating a new project with flutter create
and replacing the contents of lib/main.dart
with the code that follows.
// Copyright 2017 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
class ExpansionTileSample extends StatelessWidget {
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return MaterialApp(
home: Scaffold(
appBar: AppBar(
title: const Text('ExpansionTile'),
),
body: ListView.builder(
itemBuilder: (BuildContext context, int index) =>
EntryItem(data[index]),
itemCount: data.length,
),
),
);
}
}
// One entry in the multilevel list displayed by this app.
class Entry {
Entry(this.title, [this.children = const <Entry>[]]);
final String title;
final List<Entry> children;
}
// The entire multilevel list displayed by this app.
final List<Entry> data = <Entry>[
Entry(
'Chapter A',
<Entry>[
Entry(
'Section A0',
<Entry>[
Entry('Item A0.1'),
Entry('Item A0.2'),
Entry('Item A0.3'),
],
),
Entry('Section A1'),
Entry('Section A2'),
],
),
Entry(
'Chapter B',
<Entry>[
Entry('Section B0'),
Entry('Section B1'),
],
),
Entry(
'Chapter C',
<Entry>[
Entry('Section C0'),
Entry('Section C1'),
Entry(
'Section C2',
<Entry>[
Entry('Item C2.0'),
Entry('Item C2.1'),
Entry('Item C2.2'),
Entry('Item C2.3'),
],
),
],
),
];
// Displays one Entry. If the entry has children then it's displayed
// with an ExpansionTile.
class EntryItem extends StatelessWidget {
const EntryItem(this.entry);
final Entry entry;
Widget _buildTiles(Entry root) {
if (root.children.isEmpty) return ListTile(title: Text(root.title));
return ExpansionTile(
key: PageStorageKey<Entry>(root),
title: Text(root.title),
children: root.children.map(_buildTiles).toList(),
);
}
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return _buildTiles(entry);
}
}
void main() {
runApp(ExpansionTileSample());
}
See also:
- The “expand/collapse” part of the Material Design specification: https://material.io/guidelines/components/lists-controls.html#lists-controls-types-of-list-controls
- The source code in examples/catalog/lib/expansion_tile_sample.dart.