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Top Flutter Placeholder packages
Last updated: November 15, 2024
A placeholder is an image or effect that is displayed while the network image or text is loading. It can be a image with shimmering animation, an image with a solid background color or an image generated from a Blurhash string.
The complete list of Flutter packages that can help you add Blurhash Image, Shimmering Effect, Skeleton Text or other customizable Image Placeholders in your Flutter app is provided below.
flutter_blurhash
Dart 3 compatible 👍 1.55K
Maintenance Status: Good
Compact representation of a placeholder for an image. Encode a blurry image under 30 caracters for instant display like used by Medium
skeletonizer
Dart 3 compatible 👍 1.48K
Maintenance Status: Good
Converts already built widgets into skeleton loaders with no extra effort.
redacted
Dart 3 compatible 👍 436
Maintenance Status: Good
A package that automatically generate a loading widget from your own widget.
shimmer_animation
Dart 3 compatible 👍 420
Maintenance Status: Good
This shimmer animation widget can help you bring simple yet beautiful skeleton loaders to your project with ease.
card_loading
Dart 3 compatible 👍 226
Maintenance Status: Good
A Flutter package to create easy create loading card between two colors
blurhash_ffi
Dart 3 compatible 👍 82
Maintenance Status: Good
A compact, fast and easy to use blurry image placeholder generator for Flutter using native ffi bindings.
animated_loading_border
Dart 3 compatible 👍 78
Maintenance Status: Good
A package that gives us a modern way to show animated border as a placeholder while loading our widget with easy customization and ready to use.
image_blur
Dart 3 compatible 👍 17
Maintenance Status: Good
This Flutter package enables adding shimmer and blur effects to images. Apply these effects in circular and rectangular shapes, for both local and online images.
shimmer
Dart 3 compatible 👍 4.98K
Maintenance Status: Average
A package provides an easy way to add shimmer effect in Flutter project
transparent_image
Dart 3 compatible 👍 467
Maintenance Status: Average
A transparent image in Dart code, represented as a Uint8List.
skeleton_text
Dart 3 compatible 👍 336
Maintenance Status: Average
A package that provides an easy way to add skeleton text loading animation in Flutter project. This project is a part of 101Loop community.
fancy_shimmer_image
Dart 3 compatible 👍 197
Maintenance Status: Average
Package for easy use of images that are automatically cacheable and have a beautiful on the fly (but it can be configured) shimmer effect while loading
blurhash_dart
Dart 3 compatible 👍 119
Maintenance Status: Average
A pure dart implementation of the BlurHash algorithm. This package provides both an encoder and a decoder, as well as some utility extensions.
blurhash
Dart 3 compatible 👍 75
Maintenance Status: Average
A very compact representation of a placeholder for an image.
better_skeleton
Dart 3 compatible 👍 27
Maintenance Status: Average
A flutter package to make better loading times using skeleton.
skeleton_loader
Dart 3 compatible 👍 236
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter Package which provides a fully customizable loading skeleton for your app,
flutter_shimmer
Dart 3 compatible 👍 202
Maintenance Status: Poor
it creating Shimmer effect that indicate a loading status, so instead of using ProgressBar or usual loader use Shimmer for a better design and user interface.
random_string
Dart 3 compatible 👍 186
Maintenance Status: Poor
Simple library for generating random ascii strings by default using Random from 'dart:math'.
fade_shimmer
Dart 3 compatible 👍 161
Maintenance Status: Poor
A fade shimmer library to implement loading like lastest facebook loading effect.
flutter_lorem
Dart 3 compatible 👍 79
Maintenance Status: Poor
Generates random sentences and paragraphs (similar to "lorem ipsum" generators).
animated_shimmer
Dart 3 compatible 👍 65
Maintenance Status: Poor
A simple & lightweight widget to display a animated shimmer effect.
flutter_placeholder_textlines
Dart 3 compatible 👍 52
Maintenance Status: Poor
A simple plugin to generate placeholder lines that emulates text in a UI, useful for displaying placeholder content while loading or empty items
loader_skeleton
Dart 3 compatible 👍 39
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Facebook & Twitter Like Card Loading Shimmer Skeleton Library.
skeletons
👍 336
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter package for building custom skeleton widgets to mimic the page's layout while loading.
empty_widget
👍 69
Maintenance Status: Poor
Custom_Empty widget is flutter custom widget which is designed to notify user about some event.
flutter_skeleton
👍 33
Maintenance Status: Poor
Flutter skeleton screen for Android and iOS. Support List, Card and Card-List style. Support light and dark theme.
skeleton_animation
👍 32
Maintenance Status: Poor
Display skeleton animations in your app. It works on android, iOS and the web.
pk_skeleton
👍 19
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Facebook & Twitter Like Card Loading Shimmer Skeleton Library.
lipsum
👍 17
Maintenance Status: Poor
A simple lorem ipsum text generator. Based off of Andres Araujo's lorem-dart plugin.