Top Flutter Indicators: Loading, Refresh, Progress packages An indicator is a small animated graphical icon (called spinner), that indicates the status of a particular task or process such as status of a network request, asset or image loading, or the progress of a task. Many indicators also include a text label that provides additional information about the status of the application or process. Often the Flutter app would be performing an asynchronous operation and it would be necessary to prevent the user from tapping or using the app while this operation is in progress. It might be a very quick operation, but sometimes can take a bit longer due to network connectivity and other reasons. To prevent users from accidently tapping the button twice, or changing inputs. To solve this problem a loading indicator can be displayed in an overlay while the operation is in progress. This overlay indicator is also known as Heads-up-display (HUD) indicator. Based on functionality, the various types of indicators available in Flutter are: * **Loading Indicator** - It is a circular or linear indicator which animates while the time consuming task is in progress. Apart from the indicator, it can also be paired up with a text such as "Loading". * **Progress Indicator** - Progress indicators are similar to loading indicators, and they also inform the user about the status of ongoing process, such as task progress percentage, stage of progress, etc. They can also communicate and indicate available actions, such as whether users can navigate away from the current screen. For example, in a hyperlocal delivery app, the user can navigate away from the screen once the payment step is complete, while the progress indicator will continue updating. * **Refresh Indicator** - Whenever a user performs the swipe-to-refresh action, vertical swipe to trigger a callback method that refreshes data, a distinctive progress bar is displayed. This progress indicator is also known as refresh indicator. The complete list of Flutter packages that can help you add a Loading Indicator, Progress Indicator, Refresh Indicator or Heads-up-display (HUD) indicator to your Flutter app is provided below.
loading_indicator
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A collection loading animations written in pure dart. Out of the box, no extra dependency.
loader_overlay
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A simple package to simplify screen management. When loading any async task, this package prevent the user from interacting with the screen until the async task finishes.
modal_progress_hud
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A modal progress indicator widget (HUD = heads-up display). Wrap around another widget to block access to widget during an async call. Also accepts a custom spinner.
modal_progress_hud_nsn
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A modal progress indicator widget with Sound Null Safety. A fork of modal_progress_hud
loading_animations
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A Flutter package with a selection of simple yet very customizable set of loading animations.
flutter_animation_progress_bar
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This colorful Flutter widget package aims to show an animation progress bar in reactive style. It also supports both vertical and horizontal bar.
pull_to_refresh_flutter3
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a widget provided to the flutter scroll component drop-down refresh and pull up load.
loading_overlay
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A modal progress indicator widget that fades in and out. Wrap around another widget to block access to widget during an async call.
liquid_progress_indicator_v2
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Based on https://pub.dev/packages/liquid_progress_indicator to fix a issue after Flutter 3.10 A progress indicator with water-like effect in Flutter. Works similarly to Flutters own ProgressIndicator.
flutter_overlay_loader
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A simple Flutter package for managing overlay loading when fetching remote data or any long-running async task. Flutter overlay loader is easy to use.
widget_loading
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An easy way to hide a widget when you have nothing to show yet and need a loading animation at the same time.
dashed_circular_progress_bar
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Dashed circular progress bar shows the progress of a task in a circle, which can be customized in color, style, and shape.
loading_gifs
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Loading indicator GIFs. Material and Cupertino (Android and iOS) loading indicators in assorted sizes. Use as placeholders for loading remote image assets.
overlay_loader_with_app_icon
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A flutter package that shows a beautiful overlay loader with appIcon when initiating an async call.
linear_progress_bar
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Flutter and Dart advanced linear progress indicator like Native Android Progress Bar
page_view_dot_indicator
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A simple and animated page view indicator in the form of dots, which you can customise color, size, space and duration.
pull_to_refresh_notification
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Flutter plugin for building pull to refresh effects with PullToRefreshNotification and PullToRefreshContainer quickly.
circular_seek_bar
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Circular progress/seek bar package for flutter that supports customizable animations, dashes, and gradients.
simple_fontellico_progress_dialog
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This package helps you to render a progress dialog with different types of loading indicator.
square_percent_indicater
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Flutter package showing progress percent value in square , square shape percent indicator is used commonly in designs
flutter_svprogresshud
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A clean and lightweight progress HUD for flutter app, based on SVProgressHUD.
screen_loader
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Easy to use mixin ScreenLoader, which will handle the loading on the screen without using state or navigation stack. You can customise the loading as well.
blurry_modal_progress_hud
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Just like modal_progress_hud this is a simple widget wrapper to enable modal progress hud
water_bottle
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This library add a bottle widget to your screen. You can use it as a loading indicator, a progress tracker, or any kind of measurement suits your needs.
simple_progress_indicators
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Simple progress indicators package with solid colors and gradients. Can be used to show progress or for simple animation.
multi_circular_slider
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A Flutter package for Android, iOS & Web which helps creating multi-layered animated circular progress bar which can help display multiple values in a single bar.
flutter_advanced_progress
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An advanced progress widget, that can be fully customized with bunch of properties, just try it and enjoy!
flare_loading
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Loading widget based on a custom Flare animation, allow you to create beautiful custom loading widgets or dialogs
loading_overlay_pro
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A new Flutter project with a simple widget wrapper set of loading animations for Flutter projects.
future_progress_dialog
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future_progress_dialog is a simple progress dialog library for async tasks. FutureProgressDialog start when you call showDialog function, but dismiss automatically when future task is finished.
modal_progress_indicator
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Configurable modal progress indicator that blocks access to a wrapped widget and its subtree.
square_progress_bar
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A square progress bar that you can use easily, Just provide the progress in a range from 0.0 to 1.0 and you are set to go.
flutter_progress_dialog
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A flutter library for the progress dialog. Easily show and hide. Support specify custom loading widget.
progresso
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A linear progress bar for flutter, allow for non-zero starting, points along line, and custom styling
nuts_activity_indicator
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Highly customizable activity indicator (spinner) for your Flutter apps based on the cupertino package.
load
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Global loading widget, Pure flutter library, not use native code. It is similar to OKToast in use.
easy_loader
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The easiest way to handle a simple full screen loader in Flutter. Written in Dart. Fully customizable.
cupertino_progress_bar
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A non-interactive progress bar includes a track that fills from left to right to show the progression of a task with a known duration.
intervalprogressbar
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A interval progress bar for Flutter. Horizontal, vertical, colorful and interval progress.
flutter_colored_progress_indicators
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An alternate animated progress indicator widget for flutter's CircularProgressIndicator and LinearProgressIndicator with Google color accents.
gradient_progress
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A Gradient color support progressbar, fast way to have a beatiful gradient progress in your flutter app.
custom_linear_progress_indicator
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Provides a customizable linear progress indicator widget for Flutter applications, offering animation and visual customization options.
flutter_easyloading
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✨A clean and lightweight loading/toast widget for Flutter, Easy to use without context, Support iOS, Android and Web
loading_animation_widget
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Loading animation or loading spiner or loader. It's used to show loading animation when the app is in loading state or something is processing for uncertain time.
pull_to_refresh
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a widget provided to the flutter scroll component drop-down refresh and pull up load.