texture (image) on text in flutter

Question

is there a way to put image (texture) on a text in Flutter?

like the image shown below

Answer 1

the operation of drawing image on text is asynchronous, because it waits for the image to be loaded and set it on the TextStyle's foreground shader.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
import 'dart:async';
import 'dart:typed_data';
import 'dart:ui' as ui;

String textureName = "images/texture.jpg";
 Future<TextStyle> textureText(TextStyle textStyle,
    ) async {
  ui.Image img;
  img = await ImageLoader.load(textureName);
  Float64List matrix4 = new Matrix4.identity().storage;
  return textStyle.copyWith(
      foreground: Paint1()
        ..shader = ImageShader(img, TileMode.mirror, TileMode.mirror, matrix4));
}

below, FutureBuilder calls textureText and use the returned TextStyle

  Widget tt = new FutureBuilder<TextStyle>(
    future: texturedText(
        TextStyle(fontSize: 70.0,), // a Future<String> or null
    builder: (BuildContext context, AsyncSnapshot<TextStyle> snapshot) {
      switch (snapshot.connectionState) {
        case ConnectionState.waiting:
          return new Text('Awaiting result...');
        default:
          if (snapshot.hasError)
            return new Text('Error: ${snapshot.error}');
          else
            return new Text(
              'TEXTURE',
              style: snapshot.data,
            );
      }
    },
  );

you can use tt (texturedText) like a normal widget.

A complete example is also available in this repo.