Show Circular Progress Dialog in Login Screen in Flutter, how to implement progress dialog in flutter?

Question

I have a login form with two textfields 'UserName', 'Password' & a button 'Login'. On tap of login button I am calling an API. I want to show a CircularProgressIndicator during this api call. Progress dialog should show in the centre & top of login form. I have tried FutureBuilder but it hides the login form shows CircularProgressIndicator only. I want all content of screen to show behind the CircularProgressIndicator.

Full Code:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:the_don_flutter/userModel.dart';
import 'package:validate/validate.dart';
import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;
import 'dart:async';
import 'dart:convert';
import 'dart:io';
import 'signup.dart';

class Login extends StatefulWidget{
  @override
  State<Login> createState() {
    // TODO: implement createState
    return LoginFormState();
  }
}

class LoginFormState extends State<Login>{

  final GlobalKey<FormState> formKey = new GlobalKey<FormState>();

  String _passwordValidation(String value){
    if(value.isEmpty){
      return "Field Can't be empty.";
    }else if(value.length < 6)
      return "Password must be of six characters long.";
    return null;
  }

  String _checkValidEmail(String value){
    try{
      Validate.isEmail(value);
    }catch(e){
      return "Email is not valid.";
    }
    return null;
  }

  Future<User> _loginUser() async{
    var response = await http.post("https://example/public/api/login", headers: {}, body: {'username':'[email protected]', 'password':'123456'})
        .catchError((error) => print("Error $error"));
    print("response of login ${response.body}");
    return User.fromJson(json.decode(response.body));
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    // TODO: implement build
    return Scaffold(
      body: Container(
        padding: EdgeInsets.only(left: 20.0, top: 100.0, right: 20.0),
        decoration: BoxDecoration(
            image: DecorationImage(
                image: AssetImage("assets/images/bg_green.jpg"),
                fit: BoxFit.fill)),
        child: Column(
          children: <Widget>[

            Form(
              key: formKey,
              child: Column(children: <Widget>[
                Padding(padding: EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 20.0),
                  child: TextFormField(
                    validator: _checkValidEmail,
                    decoration: InputDecoration(
                        hintText: "[email protected]",
                        labelText: "User Name",
                        hintStyle: TextStyle(color: Colors.white)),
                    style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white),
                    autofocus: true,),),
                TextFormField(
                  obscureText: true,
                  validator: _passwordValidation,
                  decoration: InputDecoration(
                      hintText: "password",
                      labelText: "Password",
                      hintStyle: TextStyle(color: Colors.white)),
                  style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white),
                  autofocus: true,)
              ],),),
            Padding(padding: EdgeInsets.only(top: 20.0),
              child: Row(mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.end,
                children: <Widget>[
                  Text("Forgot Password?", textAlign: TextAlign.start, style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white,),),
                ],),),
            Padding(padding: EdgeInsets.only(top: 20.0),
              child: GestureDetector(
                onTap: _submitForm,
                child: Row(mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.end,
                  children: <Widget>[
                    Text("LOGIN", textAlign: TextAlign.start, style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white, fontSize: 40.0),),
                    Icon(Icons.chevron_right, size: 40.0, color: Colors.white,),
                  ],),), ),

            Expanded(
                child: Padding(padding: EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 20.0),
                  child: Row(
                    mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
                    crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.end,
                    children: <Widget>[
                      Text("Don't have an account?", textAlign: TextAlign.start, style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white,),),
                      Container(
                          margin: EdgeInsets.only(left: 8.0),
                          child: GestureDetector(
                            onTap: (){Navigator.push(context, MaterialPageRoute(builder: (context) => Signup()));},
                            child: Text("REGISTER NOW!", textAlign: TextAlign.start, style: TextStyle(color: Colors.black,),),
                          )),
                    ],
                  ),))
          ],
        ),
      ),
    );
  }

  _submitForm() {
    if(formKey.currentState.validate()){
      print("Go to Home page");
      _loginUser();
    }
  }

}

Answer 1

This demo (with source code) should be very close to what your trying to do

It includes triggering the form validators before and after the async call.

https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/modal_progress_hud