How to work with tabs in Flutter

Tabbar and TabBarView (for beginners)

A tab layout is generally what you can use to organize your contents in Flutter. In this post, I will show you a simple example of animals photos to make it clear. Scroll down to the end to see the code.

1. Create a TabController

You can create a TabController automatically by using a DefaultTabController widget. It creates a TabController and makes it available to all its descendant widgets.

DefaultTabController(
  // The number of tabs /
  length: 4,
  child: //to define in next steps
);

2. Create the tabs

When an animal type is selected using the corresponding tab, it should display its image. You can create tabs using the TabBar widget. In this example, create a TabBar with four Tab widgets and place it in an AppBar.

DefaultTabController(
  length: 4,
  child: Scaffold(
    appBar: AppBar(
      bottom: TabBar(
        tabs: [
          Text('Horse'),
          Text('Cow'),
          Text('Camel'),
          Text('Sheep'),
        ],
      ),
    ),
  ),
)

3. Create content for each tab

Here we want to display the image of the selected animal. Flutter provides the Image widget to display…