flutter - How to get full size of a ScrollController

Question

I've attached a ScrollController to a CustomScrollView of [SliverAppBar, SliverList]

In a default case I would use reverse:true and animateTo (0.0) to move the scroll to the last element added but in this case using reverse would also reverse the SliverAppBar/SliverList order !

So I'd like to use animateTo ( sizeOfScrollableAfterElementAdded ) but I can't find this value.

Thank you !

Answer 1

You can use _scrollController.position.maxScrollExtent to scroll to the end. Make sure to do this in a post-frame callback so that it will include the new item you just added.

Here is an example of a sliver list that scrolls to the end as more items are added.

import 'package:flutter/scheduler.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

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

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new MaterialApp(
      title: 'Flutter Demo',
      home: new MyHomePage(),
    );
  }
}

class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  State createState() => new MyHomePageState();
}


class MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
  ScrollController _scrollController = new ScrollController();

  List<Widget> _items = new List.generate(40, (index) {
    return new Text("item $index");
  });

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Scaffold(
      floatingActionButton: new FloatingActionButton(
        child: new Icon(Icons.arrow_downward),
        onPressed: () {
          setState(() {
            _items.add(new Text("item ${_items.length}"));
          });
          SchedulerBinding.instance.addPostFrameCallback((_) {
            _scrollController.animateTo(
              _scrollController.position.maxScrollExtent,
              duration: const Duration(milliseconds: 300),
              curve: Curves.easeOut,
            );
          });
        },
      ),
      body: new CustomScrollView(
        controller: _scrollController,
        slivers: [
          new SliverAppBar(
            title: new Text('Sliver App Bar'),
          ),
          new SliverList(
            delegate: new SliverChildBuilderDelegate(
              (context, index) => _items[index],
              childCount: _items.length,
            ),
          ),
        ],
      ),
    );
  }
}