AppBar Basics

A typical AppBar with a title, actions, and an overflow dropdown menu.

Android screenshot

An app that displays one of a half dozen choices with an icon and a title. The two most common choices are available as action buttons and the remaining choices are included in the overflow dropdow menu.

Try this app out by creating a new project with flutter create and replacing the contents of lib/main.dart with the code that follows.

// Copyright 2017 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

// This app is a stateful, it tracks the user's current choice.
class BasicAppBarSample extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _BasicAppBarSampleState createState() => new _BasicAppBarSampleState();
}

class _BasicAppBarSampleState extends State<BasicAppBarSample> {
  Choice _selectedChoice = choices[0]; // The app's "state".

  void _select(Choice choice) {
    setState(() { // Causes the app to rebuild with the new _selectedChoice.
      _selectedChoice = choice;
    });
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new MaterialApp(
      home: new Scaffold(
        appBar: new AppBar(
          title: const Text('Basic AppBar'),
          actions: <Widget>[
            new IconButton( // action button
              icon: new Icon(choices[0].icon),
              onPressed: () { _select(choices[0]); },
            ),
            new IconButton( // action button
              icon: new Icon(choices[1].icon),
              onPressed: () { _select(choices[1]); },
            ),
            new PopupMenuButton<Choice>( // overflow menu
              onSelected: _select,
              itemBuilder: (BuildContext context) {
                return choices.skip(2).map((Choice choice) {
                  return new PopupMenuItem<Choice>(
                    value: choice,
                    child: new Text(choice.title),
                  );
                }).toList();
              },
            ),
          ],
        ),
        body: new Padding(
          padding: const EdgeInsets.all(16.0),
          child: new ChoiceCard(choice: _selectedChoice),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

class Choice {
  const Choice({ this.title, this.icon });
  final String title;
  final IconData icon;
}

const List<Choice> choices = const <Choice>[
  const Choice(title: 'Car', icon: Icons.directions_car),
  const Choice(title: 'Bicycle', icon: Icons.directions_bike),
  const Choice(title: 'Boat', icon: Icons.directions_boat),
  const Choice(title: 'Bus', icon: Icons.directions_bus),
  const Choice(title: 'Train', icon: Icons.directions_railway),
  const Choice(title: 'Walk', icon: Icons.directions_walk),
];

class ChoiceCard extends StatelessWidget {
  const ChoiceCard({ Key key, this.choice }) : super(key: key);

  final Choice choice;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    final TextStyle textStyle = Theme.of(context).textTheme.display1;
    return new Card(
      color: Colors.white,
      child: new Center(
        child: new Column(
          mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
          crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.center,
          children: <Widget>[
            new Icon(choice.icon, size: 128.0, color: textStyle.color),
            new Text(choice.title, style: textStyle),
          ],
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

void main() {
  runApp(new BasicAppBarSample());
}

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