Horizontal ListView inside a Vertical ScrollView in Flutter

Question

I am trying to achieve a very common behavior nowadays which is to have a horizontal List within another widget that is at the same time scrollable. Think something like the home screen of the IMDb app:

So I want to have a widget that scrolls vertically with few items on them. At the top of it, there should be a horizontal ListView, followed up with some items called motivationCard. There are some headers in between the list and the cards as well.

I got something like this on my Widget:

@override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) => BlocBuilder<HomeEvent, HomeState>(
        bloc: _homeBloc,
        builder: (BuildContext context, HomeState state) => Scaffold(
              appBar: AppBar(),
              body: Column(
                children: <Widget>[
                  Text(
                    Strings.dailyTasks,
                  ),
                  ListView.builder(
                    scrollDirection: Axis.horizontal,
                    itemCount: tasks.length,
                    itemBuilder: (BuildContext context, int index) =>
                        taskCard(
                          taskNumber: index + 1,
                          taskTotal: tasks.length,
                          task: tasks[index],
                        ),
                  ),
                  Text(
                    Strings.motivations,
                  ),
                  motivationCard(
                    motivation: Motivation(
                        title: 'Motivation 1',
                        description:
                        'this is a description of the motivation'),
                  ),
                  motivationCard(
                    motivation: Motivation(
                        title: 'Motivation 2',
                        description:
                        'this is a description of the motivation'),
                  ),
                  motivationCard(
                    motivation: Motivation(
                        title: 'Motivation 3',
                        description:
                        'this is a description of the motivation'),
                  ),
                ],
              ),
            ),
      );

this is the error I get:

I/flutter (23780): ══╡ EXCEPTION CAUGHT BY RENDERING LIBRARY ╞═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
I/flutter (23780): The following assertion was thrown during performResize():
I/flutter (23780): Horizontal viewport was given unbounded height.
I/flutter (23780): Viewports expand in the cross axis to fill their container and constrain their children to match
I/flutter (23780): their extent in the cross axis. In this case, a horizontal viewport was given an unlimited amount of
I/flutter (23780): vertical space in which to expand.

I have tried:

• Wrapping the ListView with an Expanded widget

• Wrapping the Column with SingleChildScrollView > ConstrainedBox > IntrinsicHeight

• Having CustomScrollView as a parent, with a SliverList and the List within a SliverChildListDelegate

None of these work and I continue getting the same kind of error. This is a very common thing and shouldn't be any hard, somehow I just cannot get it to work :(

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

Edit:

I thought this could help me but it didn't.

Answer 1

Well, Your Code Work Fine with wrapping your- ListView.builder with Expanded Widget & setting mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min, of Column Widget.

E.x Code of what you Have.

 body: Column(
        mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
        children: <Widget>[
          Text(
            'Headline',
            style: TextStyle(fontSize: 18),
          ),
          Expanded(
            child: ListView.builder(
              shrinkWrap: true,
              scrollDirection: Axis.horizontal,
              itemCount: 15,
              itemBuilder: (BuildContext context, int index) => Card(
                    child: Center(child: Text('Dummy Card Text')),
                  ),
            ),
          ),
          Text(
            'Demo Headline 2',
            style: TextStyle(fontSize: 18),
          ),
          Expanded(
            child: ListView.builder(
              shrinkWrap: true,
              itemBuilder: (ctx,int){
                return Card(
                  child: ListTile(
                      title: Text('Motivation $int'),
                      subtitle: Text('this is a description of the motivation')),
                );
              },
            ),
          ),
        ],
      ),

Update:

Whole page Is Scroll-able with - SingleChildScrollView.

body: SingleChildScrollView(
  child: Column(
    mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
    children: <Widget>[
      Text(
        'Headline',
        style: TextStyle(fontSize: 18),
      ),
      SizedBox(
        height: 200.0,
        child: ListView.builder(
          physics: ClampingScrollPhysics(),
          shrinkWrap: true,
          scrollDirection: Axis.horizontal,
          itemCount: 15,
          itemBuilder: (BuildContext context, int index) => Card(
                child: Center(child: Text('Dummy Card Text')),
              ),
        ),
      ),
      Text(
        'Demo Headline 2',
        style: TextStyle(fontSize: 18),
      ),
      Card(
        child: ListTile(title: Text('Motivation $int'), subtitle: Text('this is a description of the motivation')),
      ),
      Card(
        child: ListTile(title: Text('Motivation $int'), subtitle: Text('this is a description of the motivation')),
      ),
      Card(
        child: ListTile(title: Text('Motivation $int'), subtitle: Text('this is a description of the motivation')),
      ),
      Card(
        child: ListTile(title: Text('Motivation $int'), subtitle: Text('this is a description of the motivation')),
      ),
      Card(
        child: ListTile(title: Text('Motivation $int'), subtitle: Text('this is a description of the motivation')),
      ),
    ],
  ),
),

Answer 2

Screenshot:

---

class _HomePageState extends State<HomePage> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: ListView.builder(
        itemCount: 7,
        itemBuilder: (_, i) {
          if (i < 2)
            return _buildBox(color: Colors.blue);
          else if (i == 3)
            return _horizontalListView();
          else
            return _buildBox(color: Colors.blue);
        },
      ),
    );
  }

  Widget _horizontalListView() {
    return SizedBox(
      height: 120,
      child: ListView.builder(
        scrollDirection: Axis.horizontal,
        itemBuilder: (_, __) => _buildBox(color: Colors.orange),
      ),
    );
  }

  Widget _buildBox({Color color}) => Container(margin: EdgeInsets.all(12), height: 100, width: 200, color: color);
}

Answer 3

We have to use SingleScrollView inside another SingleScrollView, using ListView will require fixed height

SingleChildScrollView(
   child: Column(
      children: <Widget>[
        SingleChildScrollView(
          scrollDirection: Axis.horizontal,
          child: Row(
          children: [Text('H1'), Text('H2'), Text('H3')])),
        Text('V1'),
        Text('V2'),
        Text('V3')]))