How to set Custom height for Widget in GridView in Flutter?

Question

The key is the childAspectRatio. This value is use to determine the layout in GridView. In order to get the desired aspect you have to set it to the (itemWidth / itemHeight). The solution would be this:

class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  MyHomePage({Key key, this.title}) : super(key: key);

  final String title;

  @override
  _MyHomePageState createState() => new _MyHomePageState();
}

class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
  List<String> widgetList = ['A', 'B', 'C'];

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    var size = MediaQuery.of(context).size;

    /*24 is for notification bar on Android*/
    final double itemHeight = (size.height - kToolbarHeight - 24) / 2;
    final double itemWidth = size.width / 2;

    return new Scaffold(
      appBar: new AppBar(
        title: new Text(widget.title),
      ),
      body: new Container(
        child: new GridView.count(
          crossAxisCount: 2,
          childAspectRatio: (itemWidth / itemHeight),
          controller: new ScrollController(keepScrollOffset: false),
          shrinkWrap: true,
          scrollDirection: Axis.vertical,
          children: widgetList.map((String value) {
            return new Container(
              color: Colors.green,
              margin: new EdgeInsets.all(1.0),
              child: new Center(
                child: new Text(
                  value,
                  style: new TextStyle(
                    fontSize: 50.0,
                    color: Colors.white,
                  ),
                ),
              ),
            );
          }).toList(),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Few days ago I came here to find a way to dynamically change height when images are loaded from internet and using childAspectRatio cannot do that because its apply to all widget in GridView(same height for each).

This answer may help someone who want different height according to each and every widget content:

I found a package called Flutter Staggered GridView by Romain Rastel. Using this package we can do so many things check examples here.

To get what we want we can use StaggeredGridView.count() and its property staggeredTiles: and for its value you can map all widget and apply StaggeredTile.fit(2).

Example code:

StaggeredGridView.count(
    crossAxisCount: 4, // I only need two card horizontally
    padding: const EdgeInsets.all(2.0),
    children: yourList.map<Widget>((item) {
      //Do you need to go somewhere when you tap on this card, wrap using InkWell and add your route
      return new Card(
        child: Column(
          children: <Widget>[
             Image.network(item.yourImage),
             Text(yourList.yourText),//may be the structure of your data is different
          ],
        ),
      );
    }).toList(),

    //Here is the place that we are getting flexible/ dynamic card for various images
    staggeredTiles: yourList.map<StaggeredTile>((_) => StaggeredTile.fit(2))
        .toList(),
    mainAxisSpacing: 3.0,
    crossAxisSpacing: 4.0, // add some space
  ),
);

You can find complete example(copy,paste and run) here.

crossAxisCount, crossAxisSpacing and screen width determine width, and childAspectRatio determines height.

I did bit of calculation to figure out relation between them.

var width = (screenWidth - ((_crossAxisCount - 1) * _crossAxisSpacing)) / _crossAxisCount;
var height = width / _aspectRatio;

---

Full example:

double _crossAxisSpacing = 8, _mainAxisSpacing = 12, _aspectRatio = 2;
int _crossAxisCount = 2;

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  double screenWidth = MediaQuery.of(context).size.width;

  var width = (screenWidth - ((_crossAxisCount - 1) * _crossAxisSpacing)) / _crossAxisCount;
  var height = width / _aspectRatio;

  return Scaffold(
    body: GridView.builder(
      itemCount: 10,
      itemBuilder: (context, index) => Container(color: Colors.blue[((index) % 9) * 100]),
      gridDelegate: SliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCount(
        crossAxisCount: _crossAxisCount,
        crossAxisSpacing: _crossAxisSpacing,
        mainAxisSpacing: _mainAxisSpacing,
        childAspectRatio: _aspectRatio,
      ),
    ),
  );
}

All credit goes to @ayRatul on Github for this answer, which is by far the best and simplest I've seen to achieve a fixed item height in a GridView:

Create your own custom delegate:

class SliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCountAndFixedHeight
    extends SliverGridDelegate {
  /// Creates a delegate that makes grid layouts with a fixed number of tiles in
  /// the cross axis.
  ///
  /// All of the arguments must not be null. The `mainAxisSpacing` and
  /// `crossAxisSpacing` arguments must not be negative. The `crossAxisCount`
  /// and `childAspectRatio` arguments must be greater than zero.
  const SliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCountAndFixedHeight({
    @required this.crossAxisCount,
    this.mainAxisSpacing = 0.0,
    this.crossAxisSpacing = 0.0,
    this.height = 56.0,
  })  : assert(crossAxisCount != null && crossAxisCount > 0),
        assert(mainAxisSpacing != null && mainAxisSpacing >= 0),
        assert(crossAxisSpacing != null && crossAxisSpacing >= 0),
        assert(height != null && height > 0);

  /// The number of children in the cross axis.
  final int crossAxisCount;

  /// The number of logical pixels between each child along the main axis.
  final double mainAxisSpacing;

  /// The number of logical pixels between each child along the cross axis.
  final double crossAxisSpacing;

  /// The height of the crossAxis.
  final double height;

  bool _debugAssertIsValid() {
    assert(crossAxisCount > 0);
    assert(mainAxisSpacing >= 0.0);
    assert(crossAxisSpacing >= 0.0);
    assert(height > 0.0);
    return true;
  }

  @override
  SliverGridLayout getLayout(SliverConstraints constraints) {
    assert(_debugAssertIsValid());
    final double usableCrossAxisExtent =
        constraints.crossAxisExtent - crossAxisSpacing * (crossAxisCount - 1);
    final double childCrossAxisExtent = usableCrossAxisExtent / crossAxisCount;
    final double childMainAxisExtent = height;
    return SliverGridRegularTileLayout(
      crossAxisCount: crossAxisCount,
      mainAxisStride: childMainAxisExtent + mainAxisSpacing,
      crossAxisStride: childCrossAxisExtent + crossAxisSpacing,
      childMainAxisExtent: childMainAxisExtent,
      childCrossAxisExtent: childCrossAxisExtent,
      reverseCrossAxis: axisDirectionIsReversed(constraints.crossAxisDirection),
    );
  }

  @override
  bool shouldRelayout(
      SliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCountAndFixedHeight oldDelegate) {
    return oldDelegate.crossAxisCount != crossAxisCount ||
        oldDelegate.mainAxisSpacing != mainAxisSpacing ||
        oldDelegate.crossAxisSpacing != crossAxisSpacing ||
        oldDelegate.height != height;
  }
}

You can then use your custom delegate as so:

...
GridView.builder(
            shrinkWrap: true,
            itemCount: list.length,
            gridDelegate: SliverGridDelegateWithFixedCrossAxisCountAndFixedHeight(
                crossAxisCount: 5,
                crossAxisSpacing: 5,
                mainAxisSpacing: 5,
                height: 48.0, //48 dp of height 
...