Flutter Dropdown Search

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to properly implement Flutter dropdown search. We’ll be going through a proper code example to practically understand how its done.

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Outline

1. Introduction: Flutter Dropdown Search
2. Implementing Flutter Dropdown Search
3. Step 1: Import Flutter Dropdown Search Package
4. Step 2: Creating a List of Items
5. Step 3: Storing the Selected Item in a Variable
6. Step 4: Flutter Dropdown Search Widget
7. Custom Flutter Dropdown Search Source Code
8. Conclusion

Introduction: Flutter Dropdown Search

It specifies a Flutter dropdown widget with a search feature. For instance, we’ve a dropdown of countries and we want to search for a specific country, that’s where search in dropdown plays its role. It saves the user alot of time.

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Let’s now see how to implement search in Flutter dropdown with a practical Flutter code example.

Implementing Flutter Dropdown Search

We need to follow the below steps in order to implement Flutter dropdown search in our Flutter app.

Step 1: Import Flutter Dropdown Search Package

dropdown_search: ^5.0.3

Import this dropdown package in your project’s pubspec.yaml file dependencies block and run flutter pub get. Click here to get the latest version.

import 'package:dropdown_search/dropdown_search.dart';

Use this line in the screen where you want to use the dropdown search widget. Continue reading…

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