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How to do date navigations easily with Flutter Calendar

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In the Flutter Event Calendar, you can easily navigate to the specific date of the day view by using the setting the allowViewNavigation, showDatePickerButton properties.

STEP 1 : Set the allowViewNavigation, showDatePickerButton value as true for easy navigation. Also easily move to the today’s date by tap on the picker icon of the header view.

child: SfCalendar(
  allowedViews: <CalendarView>[
    CalendarView.day,
    CalendarView.week,
    CalendarView.workWeek,
    CalendarView.month,
    CalendarView.timelineDay,
    CalendarView.timelineWeek,
    CalendarView.timelineWorkWeek,
    CalendarView.timelineMonth,
    CalendarView.schedule,
  ],
  dataSource: _getDataSource(),
  showDatePickerButton: true,
  allowViewNavigation: true,
),

STEP 2: By tap on the month cell and view header of the calendar views, you can navigate to the specific date with day view. Please find the entire code snippet for the same.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
import 'package:syncfusion_flutter_calendar/calendar.dart';
 
void main() => runApp(EasyViewNavigationPicker());
 
class EasyViewNavigationPicker extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
        debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
        home: Scaffold(
            body: SafeArea(
          child: SfCalendar(
            allowedViews: <CalendarView>[
              CalendarView.day,
              CalendarView.week,
              CalendarView.workWeek,
              CalendarView.month,
              CalendarView.timelineDay,
              CalendarView.timelineWeek,
              CalendarView.timelineWorkWeek,
              CalendarView.timelineMonth,
              CalendarView.schedule,
            ],
            dataSource: _getDataSource(),
            showDatePickerButton: true,
            allowViewNavigation: true,
          ),
        )));
  }
 
  _DataSource _getDataSource() {
    final List<Appointment> appointments = <Appointment>[];
    appointments.add(Appointment(
      startTime: DateTime.now().add(Duration(hours: 4)),
      endTime: DateTime.now().add(Duration(hours: 5)),
      subject: 'Meeting',
      color: Colors.red,
    ));
    appointments.add(Appointment(
      startTime: DateTime.now().add(Duration(days: -2, hours: 4)),
      endTime: DateTime.now().add(Duration(days: -2, hours: 5)),
      subject: 'Development Meeting   New York, U.S.A',
      color: Color(0xFFf527318),
    ));
    appointments.add(Appointment(
      startTime: DateTime.now().add(Duration(days: -2, hours: 3)),
      endTime: DateTime.now().add(Duration(days: -2, hours: 4)),
      subject: 'Project Plan Meeting   Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia',
      color: Color(0xFFfb21f66),
    ));
    appointments.add(Appointment(
      startTime: DateTime.now().add(Duration(days: -2, hours: 2)),
      endTime: DateTime.now().add(Duration(days: -2, hours: 3)),
      subject: 'Support - Web Meeting   Dubai, UAE',
      color: Color(0xFFf3282b8),
    ));
    appointments.add(Appointment(
      startTime: DateTime.now().add(Duration(days: -2, hours: 1)),
      endTime: DateTime.now().add(Duration(days: -2, hours: 2)),
      subject: 'Project Release Meeting   Istanbul, Turkey',
      color: Color(0xFFf2a7886),
    ));
    appointments.add(Appointment(
        startTime: DateTime.now().add(const Duration(hours: 4, days: -1)),
        endTime: DateTime.now().add(const Duration(hours: 5, days: -1)),
        subject: 'Release Meeting',
        color: Colors.lightBlueAccent,
        isAllDay: true));
    appointments.add(Appointment(
      startTime: DateTime.now().add(const Duration(hours: 2, days: -4)),
      endTime: DateTime.now().add(const Duration(hours: 4, days: -4)),
      subject: 'Performance check',
      color: Colors.amber,
    ));
    appointments.add(Appointment(
      startTime: DateTime.now().add(const Duration(hours: 11, days: -2)),
      endTime: DateTime.now().add(const Duration(hours: 12, days: -2)),
      subject: 'Customer Meeting   Tokyo, Japan',
      color: Color(0xFFffb8d62),
    ));
    appointments.add(Appointment(
      startTime: DateTime.now().add(const Duration(hours: 6, days: 2)),
      endTime: DateTime.now().add(const Duration(hours: 7, days: 2)),
      subject: 'Retrospective',
      color: Colors.purple,
    ));
 
    return _DataSource(appointments);
  }
}
 
class _DataSource extends CalendarDataSource {
  _DataSource(List<Appointment> source) {
    appointments = source;
  }
}

View sample in GitHub

 

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