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.
pull_to_refresh
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a widget provided to the flutter scroll component drop-down refresh and pull up load.
percent_indicator
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Library that allows you to display progress widgets based on percentage, can be Circular or Linear, you can also customize it to your needs.
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.
loading_indicator
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A collection loading animations written in pure dart. Out of the box, no extra dependency.
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.
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.
loading_animations
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A Flutter package with a selection of simple yet very customizable set of loading animations.
modal_progress_hud_nsn
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A modal progress indicator widget with Sound Null Safety. A fork of modal_progress_hud
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.
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.
pull_to_refresh_flutter3
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a widget provided to the flutter scroll component drop-down refresh and pull up load.
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.
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.
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.
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.
simple_fontellico_progress_dialog
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This package helps you to render a progress dialog with different types of loading indicator.
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.
square_percent_indicater
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Flutter package showing progress percent value in square , square shape percent indicator is used commonly in designs
linear_progress_bar
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Flutter and Dart advanced linear progress indicator like Native Android Progress Bar
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.
flutter_svprogresshud
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A clean and lightweight progress HUD for flutter app, based on SVProgressHUD.
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.
blurry_modal_progress_hud
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Just like modal_progress_hud this is a simple widget wrapper to enable modal progress hud
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
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.
loading_overlay_pro
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A new Flutter project with a simple widget wrapper set of loading animations for Flutter projects.
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.
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.
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.
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_progress_dialog
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A flutter library for the progress dialog. Easily show and hide. Support specify custom loading widget.
modal_progress_indicator
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Configurable modal progress indicator that blocks access to a wrapped widget and its subtree.
load
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Global loading widget, Pure flutter library, not use native code. It is similar to OKToast in use.
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.
easy_loader
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The easiest way to handle a simple full screen loader in Flutter. Written in Dart. Fully customizable.
intervalprogressbar
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A interval progress bar for Flutter. Horizontal, vertical, colorful and interval progress.
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.
flutter_colored_progress_indicators
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An alternate animated progress indicator widget for flutter's CircularProgressIndicator and LinearProgressIndicator with Google color accents.