Adding shadows to different UI components can make your app’s UI more beautiful and more appealing. In this Flutter tutorial, let’s learn how to apply shadow to Text easily. You can style the Text widget using the TextStyle class. The TextStyle has shadows property that allows to add shadows to the text. See the following…
Styling text is an important part of mobile app UI design. Letter spacing helps to adjust the distance between each letter. Let’s check how to change the default letter spacing of Text in Flutter. TextStyle class has a property named letterSpacing that helps to change the letter spacing of the Text. You have to specify…
Gradients can help you to create a visually appealing user interface. Let’s learn how to create Text with gradient colors in Flutter. I hope this Flutter tutorial will be useful for you. You can make use of Paint and ui.Gradient.linear with TextStyle to create beautiful gradient texts. See the following code snippet. This is a…
Styling text is an important part of designing the UI of a mobile app. Sometimes, you may want to create bordered text to show colorful and elegant headlines. Let’s learn how to create bordered text in Flutter. The Paint class in Flutter helps to draw on Canvas. By combining the Paint class and TextStyle we…
Text underlines are used to show the significance of a particular word or sentence. A wavy underline is apt for showing errors such as grammar mistakes. Let’s learn how to add wavy text underlining in Flutter. The TextDecoration class helps to draw underlines whereas TextDecorationStyle helps to make that underline wavy. See the following code…
A proper line height increases the readability of your app’s text content. In this Flutter tutorial, let’s see how to change the default line height of the Text widget. The TextStyle class is used to stylize the Text widget in Flutter. The height property of the TextStyle class helps to set line height. See the…
Opacity is an important aspect while designing mobile apps. Sometimes, you may want to change the opacity of the text instead of using a solid opaque color. Let’s learn how to change the Text opacity in Flutter. The TextStyle class handles all the style aspects of the Text widget. With the help of Color.withOpacity method…
Italic text is used to emphasize words or sentences of text content. In this short Flutter tutorial, let’s learn how to create Italic text. In order to make a Text italic or bold you have to make use of TextStyle. The TextStyle and FontStyle class helps us to make the text Italic. See the following…
The Text widget can be considered as one of the most important widgets in Flutter. Let’s learn how to show bold text in Flutter easily. The TextStyle class and its property fontWeight help us to make Text bold in Flutter. See the following code snippet. The output text will become bold. As you see, the…
The importance of padding in mobile app design is very high. The padding helps users to identify different elements of the layout easily. In this short Flutter tutorial, let’s learn how to add padding to Text. The Padding widget in Flutter helps to apply predefined padding to its children. In the case of Text, you…
By default, text wrapping is enabled in the Flutter Text widget. Thus, the text content breaks at soft line breaks. Let’s check how to disable this Text Wrap feature in Flutter. The Text widget has a property named softWrap that controls soft wrapping. Let’s check how the Text acts when the softWrap is enabled. As…
Whenever we use dynamic text content the chances are high that the content overflows the predefined size of the Text. In this Flutter tutorial, let’s learn how to handle Text overflow with multiple options. We use maxLines property of text to limit the number of lines and the overflow property decides how to truncate the…