Flutter ListView.Builder() in scrollable Column with other widgets

Question

I have a TabBarView() with an amount of different views. I want of them to be a Column with a TextField at top and a ListView.Builder() below, but both widgets should be in the same scrollable area (scrollview). The way I implemented it threw some errors:

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return new Column(
  mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
    mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.max,
    children: <Widget>[
      new Padding(
          padding: EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 16.0, vertical: 8.0),
          child: new TextField(
            decoration: new InputDecoration(
                hintText: "Type in here!"
            ),
          )
      ),
      new ListView.builder(
          itemCount: _posts.length, itemBuilder: _postBuilder)
    ],
   );
}

Error:

I/flutter (23520): The following assertion was thrown during performResize():
I/flutter (23520): Vertical viewport was given unbounded height.
I/flutter (23520): Viewports expand in the scrolling direction to fill their container.In this case, a vertical
I/flutter (23520): viewport was given an unlimited amount of vertical space in which to expand. This situation
I/flutter (23520): typically happens when a scrollable widget is nested inside another scrollable widget.
I/flutter (23520): If this widget is always nested in a scrollable widget there is no need to use a viewport because
I/flutter (23520): there will always be enough vertical space for the children. In this case, consider using a Column
I/flutter (23520): instead. Otherwise, consider using the "shrinkWrap" property (or a ShrinkWrappingViewport) to size
I/flutter (23520): the height of the viewport to the sum of the heights of its children.

I read about stacking the ListView.builder() in an Expanded-Area but it made the textfield kind of "sticky" which is not what I want. :-)

I also came across CustomScrollView but didn't fully understand how to implement it.

Answer 1

Placing the ListView inside an Expanded widget should solve your problem:

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return new Column(
  mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
    mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.max,
    children: <Widget>[
      new Padding(
          padding: EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 16.0, vertical: 8.0),
          child: new TextField(
            decoration: new InputDecoration(
                hintText: "Type in here!"
            ),
          )
      ),
      new Expanded(child: ListView.builder(
          itemCount: _posts.length, itemBuilder: _postBuilder))
    ],
   );
}