How to show Icon in Text widget in flutter?

Question

I want to show an icon in text widget. How do I do this ?

The following code only shows the IconData

Text("Click ${Icons.add} to add"); 

Answer 1

Flutter has WidgetSpan() to add a widget inside the RichText().

Example use:

RichText(   text: TextSpan(     children: [       TextSpan(         text: "Click ",       ),       WidgetSpan(         child: Icon(Icons.add, size: 14),       ),       TextSpan(         text: " to add",       ),     ],   ), ) 

Above code will produce:

You can treat the child of WidgetSpan like the usual widget.

Answer 2

An alternative might be to use emoji.

In Dart, strings supports escape sequences for special characters. For unicode emoji, you can use \u and curly braces with emoji hex code inside. Like this:

Text('Click \u{2795} to add') 

The result is:

You can find a complete unicode emoji list here: http://unicode.org/Public/emoji/1.0/emoji-data.txt