AppBar with a custom bottom widget.

Any widget with a PreferredSize can appear at the bottom of an AppBar.

Android screenshot

Typically an AppBar’s bottom widget is a TabBar however any widget with a PreferredSize can be used. In this app, the app bar’s bottom widget is a TabPageSelector that displays the relative position of the selected page in the app’s TabBarView. The arrow buttons in the toolbar part of the app bar and they select the previous or the next page.

Try this app out by creating a new project with flutter create and replacing the contents of lib/main.dart with the code that follows.

// Copyright 2017 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class AppBarBottomSample extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _AppBarBottomSampleState createState() => new _AppBarBottomSampleState();
}

class _AppBarBottomSampleState extends State<AppBarBottomSample>
    with SingleTickerProviderStateMixin {
  TabController _tabController;

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    _tabController = new TabController(vsync: this, length: choices.length);
  }

  @override
  void dispose() {
    _tabController.dispose();
    super.dispose();
  }

  void _nextPage(int delta) {
    final int newIndex = _tabController.index + delta;
    if (newIndex < 0 || newIndex >= _tabController.length) return;
    _tabController.animateTo(newIndex);
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new MaterialApp(
      home: new Scaffold(
        appBar: new AppBar(
          title: const Text('AppBar Bottom Widget'),
          leading: new IconButton(
            tooltip: 'Previous choice',
            icon: const Icon(Icons.arrow_back),
            onPressed: () {
              _nextPage(-1);
            },
          ),
          actions: <Widget>[
            new IconButton(
              icon: const Icon(Icons.arrow_forward),
              tooltip: 'Next choice',
              onPressed: () {
                _nextPage(1);
              },
            ),
          ],
          bottom: new PreferredSize(
            preferredSize: const Size.fromHeight(48.0),
            child: new Theme(
              data: Theme.of(context).copyWith(accentColor: Colors.white),
              child: new Container(
                height: 48.0,
                alignment: Alignment.center,
                child: new TabPageSelector(controller: _tabController),
              ),
            ),
          ),
        ),
        body: new TabBarView(
          controller: _tabController,
          children: choices.map((Choice choice) {
            return new Padding(
              padding: const EdgeInsets.all(16.0),
              child: new ChoiceCard(choice: choice),
            );
          }).toList(),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

class Choice {
  const Choice({this.title, this.icon});

  final String title;
  final IconData icon;
}

const List<Choice> choices = const <Choice>[
  const Choice(title: 'CAR', icon: Icons.directions_car),
  const Choice(title: 'BICYCLE', icon: Icons.directions_bike),
  const Choice(title: 'BOAT', icon: Icons.directions_boat),
  const Choice(title: 'BUS', icon: Icons.directions_bus),
  const Choice(title: 'TRAIN', icon: Icons.directions_railway),
  const Choice(title: 'WALK', icon: Icons.directions_walk),
];

class ChoiceCard extends StatelessWidget {
  const ChoiceCard({Key key, this.choice}) : super(key: key);

  final Choice choice;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    final TextStyle textStyle = Theme.of(context).textTheme.display1;
    return new Card(
      color: Colors.white,
      child: new Center(
        child: new Column(
          mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.min,
          crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.center,
          children: <Widget>[
            new Icon(choice.icon, size: 128.0, color: textStyle.color),
            new Text(choice.title, style: textStyle),
          ],
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

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

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