FlutterStack Widget In Flutter With Example

Abhishek Singh
2 min readJun 26, 2022

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Are you looking for a way to display text over an image or incorporate some popular design from dribble? Then you must be needing a widget to hold other widgets on top of each other. Stack Widget is your answer for all these problems.

Hi guys, my name is Abhishek Singh and in this blog, I will tell you about the Stack widget in a flutter. It is one of the prominently used widgets in a flutter. As the name suggests it is used to stack other flutter widgets on top of each other.

Introduction

A Stack widget is one of the most important widgets in the flutter library which allows the placement of two or more widgets on top of each other which.

There are 2 types of stacks

  • Stack
  • IndexdStack

Let’s first discover about the stack

Syntax

In the above syntax, you can see a stack has been defined with 3 children. In this, the first child will be the last member in a stack and the third member will be at the top of the stack.

The below image will help you to understand the stack implementation.

In the above image, you can see how flutter implements a stack widget. If you want to achieve a certain style which requires layering of widgets on top of each other then this would be the best way to do so.

Practice

Let’s create the above design in flutter using the Stack widget

Try it yourself and post the results in the comment, For any doubts, you can reach out to me

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Abhishek Singh
Abhishek Singh

Written by Abhishek Singh

Hi, I am a flutter dev with 5+ years of experience, passionate about scalable apps and business ideas.

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