A Grid From a Builder

Part of the Lists and Screens section of Coddy's Flutter journey. Lesson 11 of 33.

A grid of a hundred photos has the same problem as a long list: you cannot write every tile, and building them all at once is slow. GridView.builder builds tiles as they scroll in, like ListView.builder:

GridView.builder(
  gridDelegate: const SliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCount(
    crossAxisCount: 3,
  ),
  itemCount: photos.length,
  itemBuilder: (context, index) {
    return Image.network(photos[index]);
  },
)

The long name, SliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCount, is the grid's layout: a fixed number of tiles per row. It takes the crossAxisCount and the spacing that GridView.count took directly.

itemCount and itemBuilder work the same as in a list: the builder gets each tile's index, starting at 0.

Challenge

Easy

The calendar shows only the first week of June, written by hand. Replace the GridView.count with a GridView.builder that shows all 30 days, numbered from 1, seven to a row.

Try it yourself

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() {
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyApp({super.key});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(title: const Text('June')),
        body: GridView.count(
          padding: const EdgeInsets.all(8),
          crossAxisCount: 7,
          mainAxisSpacing: 4,
          crossAxisSpacing: 4,
          children: [
            Container(
              alignment: Alignment.center,
              color: Colors.teal.shade100,
              child: const Text('1'),
            ),
            Container(
              alignment: Alignment.center,
              color: Colors.teal.shade100,
              child: const Text('2'),
            ),
            Container(
              alignment: Alignment.center,
              color: Colors.teal.shade100,
              child: const Text('3'),
            ),
            Container(
              alignment: Alignment.center,
              color: Colors.teal.shade100,
              child: const Text('4'),
            ),
            Container(
              alignment: Alignment.center,
              color: Colors.teal.shade100,
              child: const Text('5'),
            ),
            Container(
              alignment: Alignment.center,
              color: Colors.teal.shade100,
              child: const Text('6'),
            ),
            Container(
              alignment: Alignment.center,
              color: Colors.teal.shade100,
              child: const Text('7'),
            ),
          ],
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}