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choice

The successor to smart_select and chips_choice with cleaner, more flexible, and composable API for creating inline or prompted choice widgets with single or multiple selection.

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flutter pub add choice

Package Overview

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Choice is a modern Flutter package designed for building flexible, composable choice widgets with support for both single and multiple selections. It replaces older packages like smart_select and chips_choice, offering a cleaner API for inline or prompted selection interfaces. Ideal for forms, filters, and tag-based inputs, it provides a consistent and customizable experience across platforms. The package emphasizes developer ergonomics and UI flexibility, making it easy to integrate into diverse app designs.

Use cases

  • Form inputs with selectable options
  • Filtering interfaces
  • Tag-based data entry
  • Dynamic choice lists
  • User preference selection
  • Multi-select dropdowns

Key features

  • Clean and intuitive API
  • Support for single and multiple selection
  • Flexible inline or prompted layouts
  • Highly customizable appearance
  • Cross-platform compatibility
  • Composable widget design

Suitable for

  • Developers seeking modern alternatives to legacy choice packages
  • Apps requiring dynamic, reusable selection components
  • Projects emphasizing UI consistency and maintainability
  • Teams prioritizing developer experience and code clarity
  • Applications with complex filtering or tagging needs

Considerations

  • Requires understanding of Flutter's widget composition
  • May need additional styling for complex themes
  • Limited documentation compared to mature packages
  • Best suited for apps with frequent user selections
  • Not ideal for simple static choices without interactivity

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The successor to smart_select and chips_choice with cleaner, more flexible, and composable API for creating inline or prompted choice widgets with single or multiple selection.

Features

  • Cleaner, flexible, and composable API
  • Inline or prompted choice widget
  • Single or multiple choice widget
  • Searchable choice items with highlighted result
  • Specifies whether the choice selection needs to be confirmed
  • Use any type of choice data and load it easily, either synchronously or asynchronously
  • Build your own choice item that fits your needs
  • Groupable choice items that can be sorted
  • Supports leading and trailing choice items, as well as divider choice items
  • Use a predefined wrapped, scrollable, virtualized choice list, or build one that fits your needs
  • Use a predefined popup dialog, bottom sheet, new page prompt, or build one that fits your needs
  • Use a predefined modal header, footer, and separator, or build one that fits your needs
  • Use a predefined group list, group item, and group header, or build one that fits your needs
  • Use a predefined anchor widget or build one that fits your needs
  • Use a predefined widget on loading, on error, and placeholder when empty, or build one that fits your needs

Usage

For a complete usage, please see the example.

To read more about classes and other references used by choice, see the API Reference.

Single Choice

Preview

There are a few constructors to create a single selection choice widget:

By default, the choice controller maintains the selection state within a List. Any constructors other than those dedicated to single choice will have a List<T> for their value and onChanged prop. If we want to use a single value of T, we can use ChoiceSingle.value adapter to fill the value prop and ChoiceSingle.onChanged adapter to fill the onChanged prop.

Here is an example of how to use the ChoiceSingle.value and ChoiceSingle.onChanged adapters

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:choice/choice.dart';

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

  @override
  State<InlineScrollableX> createState() => _InlineScrollableXState();
}

class _InlineScrollableXState extends State<InlineScrollableX> {
  List<String> choices = [
    'News',
    'Entertainment',
    'Politics',
    'Automotive',
    'Sports',
    'Education',
    'Fashion',
    'Travel',
    'Food',
    'Tech',
    'Science',
    'Arts'
  ];

  String? selectedValue;

  void setSelectedValue(String? value) {
    setState(() => selectedValue = value);
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Column(
      children: [
        Choice<String>.inline(
          clearable: true,
          value: ChoiceSingle.value(selectedValue),
          onChanged: ChoiceSingle.onChanged(setSelectedValue),
          itemCount: choices.length,
          itemBuilder: (state, i) {
            return ChoiceChip(
              selected: state.selected(choices[i]),
              onSelected: state.onSelected(choices[i]),
              label: Text(choices[i]),
            );
          },
          listBuilder: ChoiceList.createScrollable(
            spacing: 10,
            padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(
              horizontal: 20,
              vertical: 25,
            ),
          ),
        ),
        InlineChoice<String>.single(
          clearable: true,
          value: selectedValue,
          onChanged: setSelectedValue,
          itemCount: choices.length,
          itemBuilder: (state, i) {
            return ChoiceChip(
              selected: state.selected(choices[i]),
              onSelected: state.onSelected(choices[i]),
              label: Text(choices[i]),
            );
          },
          listBuilder: ChoiceList.createWrapped(
            spacing: 10,
            runSpacing: 10,
            padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(
              horizontal: 20,
              vertical: 25,
            ),
          ),
        ),
      ],
    );
  }
}
Multiple Choice

Preview

There are a few constructors to create an multiple selection choice widget:

Inline Choice

Preview

There are a few constructors to create an inline choice widget:

Prompted Choice

Preview

There are a few constructors to create a prompted choice widget:

Choice Data

Preview

Choice Item

Preview

With Future Builder

Preview

With Form and FormField

Preview

TODO

  • :white_check_mark: Grouped choice items
  • :x: Sortable choice items better to do this outside
  • :black_square_button: Add scroll wheel list
  • :black_square_button: Add dropdown choice widget
  • :black_square_button: Add chainable choice widget

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