Adding Shadows at the bottom of a container in flutter?

Question

I have a simple screen with a container about 100 in height and with blue color. I want to add a shadow or elevation at the bottom of the container.

This is my code below

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:finsec/utils/strings.dart';
import 'package:finsec/utils/dimens.dart';
import 'package:finsec/utils/colors.dart';


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

class IncomeFragment extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Stack(
        children: <Widget>[
          new Container(
            height: margin_100dp,
            color: colorPrimary,

          ),
          new Container(    //container to  overlay on top of blue container
            alignment: Alignment.topCenter,


            child: Column(
              crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.center,
              mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
              children: <Widget>[

                Text(
                    zero_amount,
                    style: TextStyle(color: white, fontSize: 40.0, fontWeight: FontWeight.bold)
                ),
              ],
            ),
          )
        ],
    );
  }
}

can someone help me to add a shadow or elevation at the bottom of my blue container?

see image below. shawdow should be in place in the red circle

thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can reuse the first container that you have in your Stack, the container has a property called decoration and it accept a widget of kind BoxDecoration, as you can see in this link: BoxDecoration Inside this widget you can use the boxShadow property to give to your container a custom shadow, try the next code:

new Container(
      height: margin_100dp,
      decoration: BoxDecoration(
          boxShadow: <BoxShadow>[
            BoxShadow(
                color: Colors.black54,
                blurRadius: 15.0,
                offset: Offset(0.0, 0.75)
            )
          ],
        color: colorPrimary
      ),
    ),

Answer 2

Or you can wrap your Container widget with a Material widget which contains an elevation property to give the shadowy effects.

Container(
          child: Row(
            mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
            children: <Widget>[
              Material(
                elevation: 15.0,
                child: Container(
                  height: 100,
                  width: 100,
                  color: Colors.blue,
                  child: Center(child: Text("Material",style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white),)),
                ),
              ),
              SizedBox(width: 100,),
              Container(
                height: 100,
                width: 100,
                decoration: BoxDecoration(
                    boxShadow: <BoxShadow>[
                      BoxShadow(
                          color: Colors.black54,
                          blurRadius: 15.0,
                          offset: Offset(0.0, 0.75)
                      )
                    ],
                    color: Colors.blue
                ),
                child: Center(child: Text('Box Shadow',style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white))),
              ),
            ],
          ),
        ),

Image:

Difference between two widgets is shown above. Hope this helps!!!

Answer 3

Yes, BoxShadow can solve the problem but instead of manually adding the list of BoxShadow, there is a handy map in flutter call kElevationToShadow which map elevation keys to pre-defined list of BoxShadow. It is also defined based on the material design elevation.

Container(
  height: 60.0,
  decoration: BoxDecoration(
    boxShadow: kElevationToShadow[4],
    color: Theme.of(context).bottomAppBarColor,
  ),
  child: ...
);

Answer 4

Container(
   margin: EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 7),
   decoration: BoxDecoration(
     color: Colors.white,
     borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
     boxShadow: kElevationToShadow[2], // Use This kElevationToShadow ***********
   ),
   child: Center(child: Text('With BoxShadow')),
),

Material( // Using Material Widget ***********************
  elevation: 5,
  borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
  child: Container(
    margin: EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 7),
    decoration: BoxDecoration(
      color: Colors.white,
      borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(10),
    ),
    child: Center(child: Text('With BoxShadow')),
 ),
),