How to Add Images in the Flutter App

Flutter Images are those that manage the asset images and show that upon run time. The images can be static images or dynamic images.

GFImage supports and manages the images to be displayed on run time. It has the following types of images which can be used in any application.

GF Flutter Asset Image

Asset image is used to display the images stored locally in the assets folder. Below is a simple example code of an asset image.

import 'package:getwidget/getwidget.dart';

GFImageOverlay(
  height: 200,
  width: 300,
  image: AssetImage('your asset image')
)

GF Flutter Network Image

Network image is used to display an image from the internet. Hence the passing parameter for the image will be as shown in the below code.

import 'package:getwidget/getwidget.dart';

GFImageOverlay(
  height: 200,
  width: 300,
  image: NetworkImage('your network image')
)

GF Flutter Image Overlay

Image Overlay is used to set the image in the background and text in the foreground with the colorFilter property that takes two colors, and outputs one color

Flutter Image overlay example Code

import 'package:getwidget/getwidget.dart';

GFImageOverlay(
  height: 200,
  width: 300,
  child: Center(
    child: Text('Light Overlay', style:TextStyle(color: GFColors.LIGHT)),
  ),
  image: AssetImage('your asset image'),
  colorFilter: new ColorFilter.mode(Colors.black.withOpacity(0.3),
   BlendMode.darken),
),

GF Flutter Circle Image

A Circular Image is an image with a circle-shaped border. It is widely used in any profile screen to display the profile picture.

Flutter Circle image example Code

import 'package:getwidget/getwidget.dart';

 GFImageOverlay(
   height: 200,
   width: 200,
   shape: BoxShape.circle,
   image:AssetImage('your asset image'),
   boxFit: BoxFit.cover,
 )

GF Flutter Image Custom Properties

The custom properties of GFImage are given below to customize the look and feel of the image.

Name	Description
height	defines the height of the image
width	defines the width of the image
color	defines the background color of the image
margin	image's outer container margin
padding	image's outer container padding
alignment	to align the child within the image
boxFit	how to image should be inscribed into the box
borderRadius	the corners of the image
border	the border above the image