Change Flutter Drawer Background Color

Question

How can I change the background color of a flutter nav drawer? There doesn't seem to be a color or background-color property.

Distraught

Drawer documentation lists BackgroundColor property, but it doesn't seem to exist. Strange. – Revelry

Answer 1

When you build your ListView in the child property of your Drawer, you can wrap your different sections of the Drawer inside a Container and use the color property of the Container.

drawer: new Drawer(
        child: new ListView(
          children: <Widget>[
            new Container(child: new DrawerHeader(child: new CircleAvatar()),color: Colors.tealAccent,),
            new Container (
              color: Colors.blueAccent,
              child: new Column(
                children: new List.generate(4, (int index){
                  return new ListTile(
                    leading: new Icon(Icons.info),
                  );
                }),
              ),
            )
          ],
        ),
      ),

A better alternative if you already have a consistent coloring design in your mind, is to define your ThemeData under the theme property of the root of your app, the DrawerHeader and the body will follow your canvasColor, so you need to override the value of one of them to change the color:

return new MaterialApp(
....
theme: new ThemeData(
       canvasColor: Colors.redAccent,

       ....),
)

Rosendorosene

Thanks for the advice about ThemeData. IMHO, using consistent color scheme is a way to go here. – Concepcion

Answer 2

Best way to wrap Drawer with Theme,

For example:

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
        //other scaffold items
        drawer: Theme(
           data: Theme.of(context).copyWith(
                 canvasColor: Colors.blue, //This will change the drawer background to blue.
                 //other styles
              ),
              child: Drawer(
                 child: Column(
                    children: <Widget>[
                       //drawer stuffs
                    ],
                 ),
             ),
        );
  }

Orbit

Only this works for transparent background – Casaubon

this doesn’t work to me, i dont now why, maybe because i have the drawer in a component – Underhanded

Answer 3

The easiest way would probably be to just wrap the ListView inside a Container and specify its color like following:

drawer: Drawer(
  child: Container(color: Colors.red,
    child: new ListView(
      ...
    )
  )
)

Luminal

Answer 4

For changing Drawer header color, you can use below code :

---

UserAccountsDrawerHeader(
  accountName: Text("Ashish Rawat"),
  accountEmail: Text("[email protected]"),
  decoration: BoxDecoration(
    color: const Color(0xFF00897b),
  ),
  currentAccountPicture: CircleAvatar(
    backgroundColor: Theme.of(ctxt).platform == TargetPlatform.iOS
        ? const Color(0xFF00897b)
        : Colors.white,
    child: Text(
      "A",
      style: TextStyle(fontSize: 40.0),
    ),
  ),
),

Burkett

Answer 5

You can just use this code;

drawer: Drawer(
        child: Container(
          //child: Your widget,
          color: Colors.red,
          width: double.infinity,
          height: double.infinity,
        ),
      )

Latium

Answer 6

PLAIN BACKGROUND

Just set your desired theme color using primarySwatch: Colors.brown property in ThemeData

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  final appTitle = 'Drawer Demo';

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: appTitle,
      theme: new ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.brown, // Your app THEME-COLOR
      ),
      home: MyHomePage(title: appTitle),
    );
  }
}

GRADIENT BACKGROUND Add the gradient property to AppBar.

@override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text("profyl.org",
              style: TextStyle(color: Colors.white),
              textDirection: TextDirection.ltr),
          flexibleSpace: Container(
            decoration: new BoxDecoration(
              gradient: new LinearGradient(
                  colors: [
                    const Color(0xFF3366FF),
                    const Color(0xFF00CCFF),
                  ],
                  begin: const FractionalOffset(0.0, 0.0),
                  end: const FractionalOffset(1.0, 0.0),
                  stops: [0.0, 1.0],
                  tileMode: TileMode.clamp),
            ),
          ),
        ),
        body: HomeListPage(),
        drawer: DrawerPage());
  }

Neoclassic

Answer 7

Try This.

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Drawer(
      child: Container(
        color: Colors.black,
        child: ListView(
          padding: const EdgeInsets.all(0),
          children: [

          ],
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Dagenham

Answer 8

This will help

 drawer: Drawer(
    child: Container(
      color: Colors.blueAccent,
      child: ListView(
        padding: EdgeInsets.zero,
        children: <Widget>[
          UserAccountsDrawerHeader(
            decoration: BoxDecoration(
              color: Color(0xFF56ccf2),
            ),
            accountName: Text("User Name Goes"),
            accountEmail: Text("[email protected]"),
            currentAccountPicture: CircleAvatar(
              backgroundColor:
              Theme.of(context).platform == TargetPlatform.iOS
                  ? Color(0xFF56ccf2)
                  : Colors.white,
              child: Text("TK",
                style: TextStyle(fontSize: 50,
                  color: Colors.lightGreenAccent,),),
            ),
          ),
          ListTile(
            title: Text('Home',
                style: TextStyle(
                  color: Colors.white,
                  fontSize: 18,
                )),
            contentPadding: EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(20, 5, 0, 5),
            trailing: Icon(Icons.arrow_right,
              color: Colors.white,),
            onTap: () {
              Navigator.of(context).pop();
              Navigator.of(context).push(MaterialPageRoute(
                  builder: (BuildContext context) => HomeScreen()));
            },
          ),
        ],
      ),
    ),
  ),

Flavour

As this is some pretty extensive code, you should probably add a little bit of explanation or related documents such as documentation. – Kendalkendall

@FabianBettag Okay. I will do so next time I make an attempt to answer a question. Thanks – Flavour

Answer 9

The simplest way:

Drawer(
  child: ListView(
    padding: EdgeInsets.zero,
    children: <Widget>[
      DrawerHeader(
         decoration: BoxDecoration(color:Theme.of(context).bottomAppBarColor),
    )],
  ),
)

Forewing

Answer 10

You can wrap whatever you have in your drawer with a container wrapped with expanded widget. Thus you can change the color of the container there. Something like this will work.

Drawer(
    child: Expanded(
      child: Container(
       color: Colors.red,
       child: Text('Tabs'),
      ),
    ),
  )

Frimaire

Answer 11

You can use DrawerThemeData:

return MaterialApp(
  theme: ThemeData(
   drawerTheme: const DrawerThemeData(
     backgroundColor: Color(0xff24191b),
   ),
  ),
 );

Ewald

Answer 12

In drawer wrap Container on ListView or ListTile Data

Container(
  color: Colors.indigo,
  child: ListView.builder(....))

Biddable