Overview
Icon Picker is a Flutter package that provides a dialog widget to display a collection of icons for easy selection. It allows users to pick an icon, returning the selected icon's data in JSON format. Designed for simplicity and integration, it supports custom icon sets and is ideal for apps needing icon selection in forms or settings. The package is lightweight and focused on usability, making it straightforward to implement in UI workflows.
Use cases
- Selecting icons in app settings
- Adding icons to user-generated content
- Customizing UI elements with icons
- Configuring theme options
- Building form builders with icon inputs
- Integrating icon selection into dashboards
Key features
- Displays a scrollable icon collection
- Returns selected icon as JSON data
- Simple dialog-based interface
- Supports custom icon sets
- Lightweight and easy to integrate
- Minimal setup required
Suitable for
- Developers building UI-heavy apps
- Apps requiring icon customization
- Form builders with visual elements
- Designers integrating icon selection
- Projects with minimal dependencies
- Prototyping icon selection features
Considerations
- Requires manual handling of icon data parsing
- Limited to predefined icon collections unless customized
- No built-in search or filtering
- Not optimized for very large icon sets
- Depends on external icon set definitions
- May need additional styling for consistent appearance