Working with Lists in Flutter

 Working with Lists in Flutter – A Complete Beginner’s Guide

By Quality Thought Training Institute


When building mobile apps in Flutter, one of the most common UI elements you’ll work with is a List. Lists are essential for displaying structured data like messages, products, tasks, or notifications. Flutter offers powerful and flexible widgets for handling lists with smooth scrolling and great performance.

At Quality Thought Training Institute, we teach Flutter mobile app development from the ground up. In this blog, we’ll explore how to work with Lists in Flutter — from basic lists to dynamic and interactive ones.


📋 What is a List in Flutter?

In Flutter, lists are used to display a scrollable collection of widgets. The most commonly used widget for this is the ListView. It automatically scrolls when the content overflows the screen and supports both vertical and horizontal lists.


✅ Creating a Basic ListView

A simple list can be created using ListView() with children widgets:

ListView(

  children: <Widget>[

    Text('Item 1'),

    Text('Item 2'),

    Text('Item 3'),

  ],

);

But in real-time apps, we often need dynamic lists that are generated based on data. This is where ListView.builder() comes into play.


🛠️ Using ListView.builder()

ListView.builder() is the most efficient way to create large or dynamic lists in Flutter:

ListView.builder(

  itemCount: items.length,

  itemBuilder: (context, index) {

    return ListTile(

      title: Text(items[index]),

    );

  },

);

With this approach, only the visible list items are rendered, which improves app performance — especially in data-heavy applications like chat apps or product catalogs.


💡 Interactive Lists

Flutter lists can be made interactive with features like:

  • ListTile for custom rows with icons, subtitles, etc.
  • Dismissible for swipe-to-delete functionality
  • ExpansionTile for collapsible lists
  • ListView.separated for adding dividers between items
  • These features help create a user-friendly and responsive mobile UI.


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