Habit Tracker: Add a Habit

Part of the Projects section of Coddy's Flutter journey. Lesson 33 of 36.

Everyone tracks different habits, so the app needs a way to add one. A round FloatingActionButton in the corner opens a dialog that asks for the name.

showDialog returns a Future with whatever the dialog pops. Here the dialog pops true for Add and false for Cancel, and the field writes what you type into a variable with onChanged:

String name = '';
final added = await showDialog<bool>(
  context: context,
  builder: (context) => AlertDialog(
    title: const Text('New habit'),
    content: TextField(onChanged: (value) => name = value, ...),
    actions: [...],
  ),
);
if (added != true || name.trim().isEmpty) return;

added is a bool?: tapping outside the dialog closes it with null. added != true covers Cancel and that case at once.

A new habit starts with a fresh week: List.filled(7, false). Not const [false, ...]: a const list can never change, so the first tick would stop the app.

Challenge

Hard

Add habits:

give the Scaffold a FloatingActionButton with Icons.add that calls _addHabit
write Future<void> _addHabit() async: an AlertDialog titled New habit with a TextField labelled Habit name (with autofocus: true), a Cancel TextButton and an Add FilledButton
after Add with a name that is not blank, add a habit with that trimmed name and an empty week

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,
      theme: ThemeData(
        colorScheme: ColorScheme.fromSeed(seedColor: Colors.green),
      ),
      home: const HabitScreen(),
    );
  }
}

const List<String> dayNames = ['Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat', 'Sun'];

class Habit {
  Habit(this.name, this.days);

  final String name;
  final List<bool> days;

  int get done => days.where((day) => day).length;

  int get streak {
    int best = 0;
    int run = 0;
    for (bool day in days) {
      if (day) {
        run++;
        if (run > best) best = run;
      } else {
        run = 0;
      }
    }
    return best;
  }
}

class HabitScreen extends StatefulWidget {
  const HabitScreen({super.key});

  @override
  State<HabitScreen> createState() => _HabitScreenState();
}

class _HabitScreenState extends State<HabitScreen> {
  final List<Habit> _habits = [
    Habit('Drink water', [true, true, true, false, true, false, false]),
    Habit('Read 10 pages', [true, false, true, true, false, false, false]),
    Habit('Stretch', List.filled(7, false)),
  ];

  void _toggle(Habit habit, int day) {
    setState(() {
      habit.days[day] = !habit.days[day];
    });
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(title: const Text('Habits')),
      body: ListView(
        padding: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(16, 8, 16, 88),
        children: [
          for (Habit habit in _habits)
            HabitCard(
              habit: habit,
              onToggle: (day) => _toggle(habit, day),
            ),
        ],
      ),
    );
  }
}

class HabitCard extends StatelessWidget {
  const HabitCard({super.key, required this.habit, required this.onToggle});

  final Habit habit;
  final void Function(int day) onToggle;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    final textTheme = Theme.of(context).textTheme;
    return Card(
      margin: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 12),
      clipBehavior: Clip.antiAlias,
      child: Padding(
        padding: const EdgeInsets.all(16),
        child: Column(
          crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
          children: [
            Row(
              children: [
                Expanded(child: Text(habit.name, style: textTheme.titleMedium)),
                Text('${habit.done} of 7 days', style: textTheme.bodySmall),
              ],
            ),
            const SizedBox(height: 12),
            Row(
              mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.spaceBetween,
              children: [
                for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++)
                  DayCircle(
                    label: dayNames[i],
                    done: habit.days[i],
                    onTap: () => onToggle(i),
                  ),
              ],
            ),
            const SizedBox(height: 12),
            Row(
              children: [
                Icon(
                  Icons.local_fire_department,
                  size: 20,
                  color: habit.streak > 0 ? Colors.orange : Theme.of(context).colorScheme.outline,
                ),
                const SizedBox(width: 4),
                Text(habit.streak == 0 ? 'No streak yet' : '${habit.streak} day streak'),
              ],
            ),
          ],
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

class DayCircle extends StatelessWidget {
  const DayCircle({super.key, required this.label, required this.done, required this.onTap});

  final String label;
  final bool done;
  final VoidCallback onTap;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    final colors = Theme.of(context).colorScheme;
    return GestureDetector(
      onTap: onTap,
      child: Container(
        width: 40,
        height: 40,
        alignment: Alignment.center,
        decoration: BoxDecoration(
          shape: BoxShape.circle,
          color: done ? colors.primary : colors.surfaceContainerHighest,
        ),
        child: Text(
          label,
          style: TextStyle(
            fontSize: 11,
            fontWeight: FontWeight.bold,
            color: done ? colors.onPrimary : colors.onSurfaceVariant,
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}