Selectable List View In Flutter

This article will help, if you are developing a flutter application that needs to select the list items, like in a chat-app to delete the selected chats, or in a todo-app to remove or tick the selected todos.

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STEP 1: Place your ListView inside a Stateful Widget

This step is although not necessary if you are using some state managements other than setState() like Bloc, or Provider.

I have chosen the setState() state management with Stateful Widget for simplicity.

class SelectListItem extends StatefulWidget{

@override

_SelectListItemState createState() => _SelectListItemState();

}

class _SelectListItemState extends State<SelectListItem>{

@override

Widget build(BuildContext context) {

return MaterialApp(

home: Scaffold(

appBar: AppBar(title: Text(‘Select List Items’)),

body: ListView()

}

STEP 2: Add items to your ListView

Here I’m using the ListView builder (instead of ListView above) to generate list-items for…