AlertDialog (Flutter Widget of the Week)

Flutter · 386K views · 2019 · 2:00

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Why Stack Overflow recommends it

Stack Overflow users link it as a short official walkthrough of AlertDialog when answering questions about dialogs, overlays and alert boxes in Flutter.

Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2020 to 2021.

What it is

A two-minute episode of Google's Flutter Widget of the Week series explaining the AlertDialog widget, which prompts users for decisions or alerts them to something. It covers related calls like showDialog and showCupertinoDialog, plus the iOS-style CupertinoAlertDialog.

What people said

Recommends Anas Shwehdy · 2020-06 · Stack Overflow · on “FLUTTER Hideable Overlay Menu”

Could you describe what You exactly mean with Two menus, or at least include an Image. However, if you mean Dialog by that, Then you can basically achieve that in Flutter by calling this method: showDialog( context: context, builder: (_) { return AlertDialog( title: Text(title), content: /* Here add your Content widget */, actions: <Widget>[ FlatButton( child: Text(okBtnText), onPressed: okBtnFunction, ), FlatButton( child: Text(cancelBtnText), onPressed: () => Navigator.pop(context)) ], ); }); Here's a video from Flutter Widget of the week, explaining the AlertDialog widget: [this video]

Recommends Viraj Doshi · 2021-01 · Stack Overflow · on “Flutter remove bottom padding container”

This is because RaisedButton have a fixed height. Wrap the RaisedButton inside a Container widget and give it a height value. Like this and it should be fine Expanded( child: Container( height: 48, child: RaisedButton( child: Text('Reject'), onPressed: () => null, ), ), ), Do this for both of your buttons This is the output: [LINK] Also if you want to create an alert box it is better to use flutter build in widgets like AlertDialog if you want iOS styled alert box then you can use CupertinoAlertDialog AlertDialog 's are very well explained in this video [this video]

Cites Michael Lee · 2020-12 · Stack Overflow · on “How to check visibility of a Flutter widget even when covered by another”

Do I understand your problem? You have a widget you want to always be on top? You want the user to interact with that widget first before doing other things? Use design patterns to make coding easier, your users will thank you. You can show a Dialog [this video] on-top of other widgets with the showGeneralDialog or showDialog functions. Because Dialogs are a design-pattern used in many apps, users will already know how to use them. Define app behavior with explicit state. It is too hard to derive app behavior from rendered UI, not all devices are the same size and shape. This means you should try to write a variable that describes your situation and then write the code you need to make that varia