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carousel_slider

A carousel slider widget, support infinite scroll and custom child widget.

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Install package

flutter pub add carousel_slider

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A Flutter package that provides a customizable carousel slider widget, enabling infinite scrolling and support for custom child widgets. Ideal for displaying images, cards, or any content in a swipeable, horizontal layout. The slider offers smooth animations, automatic play, and responsive design across multiple platforms. It is lightweight and easy to integrate into existing Flutter projects. Perfect for showcasing featured items, product galleries, or promotional content in a visually engaging way.

Use cases

  • Displaying image galleries
  • Showcasing product highlights
  • Creating onboarding screens
  • Presenting promotional content
  • Building interactive sliders
  • Supporting infinite scrollable lists

Key features

  • Infinite scroll support
  • Customizable child widgets
  • Smooth animations
  • Auto-play functionality
  • Responsive design
  • Cross-platform compatibility

Suitable for

  • E-commerce apps
  • Travel or portfolio websites
  • Onboarding experiences
  • Content-rich mobile apps
  • Interactive UI components
  • Projects requiring swipeable carousels

Considerations

  • May require optimization for large datasets
  • Performance impact with complex children
  • Needs careful handling of auto-play timing
  • Limited built-in pagination controls
  • Not ideal for vertical scrolling
  • Requires proper state management

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carousel_slider

A carousel slider widget.

Features

  • Infinite scroll
  • Custom child widgets
  • Auto play

Supported platforms

  • Flutter Android
  • Flutter iOS
  • Flutter web
  • Flutter desktop

Live preview

https://serenader2014.github.io/flutter_carousel_slider/#/

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Installation

Add carousel_slider: ^5.1.2 to your pubspec.yaml dependencies. And import it:

import 'package:carousel_slider/carousel_slider.dart';

How to use

Simply create a CarouselSlider widget, and pass the required params:

CarouselSlider(
  options: CarouselOptions(height: 400.0),
  items: [1,2,3,4,5].map((i) {
    return Builder(
      builder: (BuildContext context) {
        return Container(
          width: MediaQuery.of(context).size.width,
          margin: EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 5.0),
          decoration: BoxDecoration(
            color: Colors.amber
          ),
          child: Text('text $i', style: TextStyle(fontSize: 16.0),)
        );
      },
    );
  }).toList(),
)

Params


CarouselSlider(
   items: items,
   options: CarouselOptions(
      height: 400,
      aspectRatio: 16/9,
      viewportFraction: 0.8,
      initialPage: 0,
      enableInfiniteScroll: true,
      reverse: false,
      autoPlay: true,
      autoPlayInterval: Duration(seconds: 3),
      autoPlayAnimationDuration: Duration(milliseconds: 800),
      autoPlayCurve: Curves.fastOutSlowIn,
      enlargeCenterPage: true,
      enlargeFactor: 0.3,
      onPageChanged: callbackFunction,
      scrollDirection: Axis.horizontal,
   )
 )

Since v2.0.0, you'll need to pass the options to CarouselOptions. For each option's usage you can refer to carousel_options.dart.

If you pass the height parameter, the aspectRatio parameter will be ignored.

Build item widgets on demand

This method will save memory by building items once it becomes necessary. This way they won't be built if they're not currently meant to be visible on screen. It can be used to build different child item widgets related to content or by item index.


CarouselSlider.builder(
  itemCount: 15,
  itemBuilder: (BuildContext context, int itemIndex, int pageViewIndex) =>
    Container(
      child: Text(itemIndex.toString()),
    ),
)

Carousel controller

In order to manually control the pageview's position, you can create your own CarouselSliderController, and pass it to CarouselSlider. Then you can use the CarouselSliderController instance to manipulate the position.

class CarouselDemo extends StatelessWidget {
  CarouselSliderController buttonCarouselController = CarouselSliderController();

 @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) => Column(
    children: <Widget>[
      CarouselSlider(
        items: child,
        carouselController: buttonCarouselController,
        options: CarouselOptions(
          autoPlay: false,
          enlargeCenterPage: true,
          viewportFraction: 0.9,
          aspectRatio: 2.0,
          initialPage: 2,
        ),
      ),
      RaisedButton(
        onPressed: () => buttonCarouselController.nextPage(
            duration: Duration(milliseconds: 300), curve: Curves.linear),
        child: Text('→'),
      )
    ]
  );
}
CarouselSliderController methods
.nextPage({Duration duration, Curve curve})

Animate to the next page

.previousPage({Duration duration, Curve curve})

Animate to the previous page

.jumpToPage(int page)

Jump to the given page.

.animateToPage(int page, {Duration duration, Curve curve})

Animate to the given page.

Screenshot

Basic text carousel demo:

simple

Basic image carousel demo:

image

A more complicated image carousel slider demo:

complicated image

Fullscreen image carousel slider demo:

fullscreen

Image carousel slider with custom indicator demo:

indicator

Custom CarouselSliderController and manually control the pageview position demo:

manual

Vertical carousel slider demo:

vertical

Simple on-demand image carousel slider, with image auto prefetch demo:

prefetch

No infinite scroll demo:

noloop

All screenshots above can be found at the example project.

License

MIT

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