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Top Flutter Placeholder packages
Last updated: April 2, 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.
shimmer
Dart 3 compatible 👍 4.49K
Maintenance Status: Good
A package provides an easy way to add shimmer effect in Flutter project
flutter_blurhash
Dart 3 compatible 👍 1.38K
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 👍 565
Maintenance Status: Good
Converts already built widgets into skeleton loaders with no extra effort.
skeleton_text
Dart 3 compatible 👍 314
Maintenance Status: Good
A package that provides an easy way to add skeleton text loading animation in Flutter project. This project is a part of 101Loop community.
redacted
Dart 3 compatible 👍 259
Maintenance Status: Good
A package that automatically generate a loading widget from your own widget.
card_loading
Dart 3 compatible 👍 165
Maintenance Status: Good
A Flutter package to create easy create loading card between two colors
fancy_shimmer_image
Dart 3 compatible 👍 148
Maintenance Status: Good
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 3 compatible 👍 66
Maintenance Status: Good
A very compact representation of a placeholder for an image.
blurhash_ffi
Dart 3 compatible 👍 63
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 👍 56
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 👍 6
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.
transparent_image
Dart 3 compatible 👍 433
Maintenance Status: Average
A transparent image in Dart code, represented as a Uint8List.
fade_shimmer
Dart 3 compatible 👍 148
Maintenance Status: Average
A fade shimmer library to implement loading like lastest facebook loading effect.
blurhash_dart
Dart 3 compatible 👍 104
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.
flutter_placeholder_textlines
Dart 3 compatible 👍 52
Maintenance Status: Average
A simple plugin to generate placeholder lines that emulates text in a UI, useful for displaying placeholder content while loading or empty items
shimmer_animation
Dart 3 compatible 👍 363
Maintenance Status: Poor
This shimmer animation widget can help you bring simple yet beautiful skeleton loaders to your project with ease.
skeletons
Dart 3 compatible 👍 322
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter package for building custom skeleton widgets to mimic the page's layout while loading.
skeleton_loader
Dart 3 compatible 👍 227
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter Package which provides a fully customizable loading skeleton for your app,
flutter_shimmer
Dart 3 compatible 👍 198
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 👍 175
Maintenance Status: Poor
Simple library for generating random ascii strings by default using Random from 'dart:math'.
flutter_lorem
Dart 3 compatible 👍 75
Maintenance Status: Poor
Generates random sentences and paragraphs (similar to "lorem ipsum" generators).
empty_widget
Dart 3 compatible 👍 63
Maintenance Status: Poor
Custom_Empty widget is flutter custom widget which is designed to notify user about some event.
animated_shimmer
Dart 3 compatible 👍 61
Maintenance Status: Poor
A simple & lightweight widget to display a animated shimmer effect.
loader_skeleton
Dart 3 compatible 👍 37
Maintenance Status: Poor
A Facebook & Twitter Like Card Loading Shimmer Skeleton Library.
skeleton_animation
Dart 3 compatible 👍 32
Maintenance Status: Poor
Display skeleton animations in your app. It works on android, iOS and the web.
flutter_skeleton
👍 34
Maintenance Status: Poor
Flutter skeleton screen for Android and iOS. Support List, Card and Card-List style. Support light and dark theme.
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.