How to programmatically navigate to the adjacent dates in the Flutter Calendar?

In the Flutter Event Calendar, you can programmatically navigate to the adjacent dates by using the forward and backward method of CalendarController.

Inside the state, initialize the calendar controller.

final CalendarController? _controller = CalendarController();

Use the forward and backward properties of controller for programmatically change the adjacent dates.

Row(
  children: [
    Container(
    margin: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(30, 20, 0, 20),
      child: RaisedButton.icon(
        icon: Icon(Icons.arrow_back),
        label: Text('Backward'),
        onPressed: () {
          _controller.backward();
        },
      ),
    ),
    Container(
    margin: const EdgeInsets.fromLTRB(70, 20, 0, 20),
      child: RaisedButton.icon(
        label: Text('Forward'),
        icon: Icon(Icons.arrow_forward),
        onPressed: () {
          _controller.forward();
        },
      ),
    )
  ],
),

Assign _controller to the controller property of the calendar.

child: SfCalendar(
  controller: _controller,
),

View sample in GitHub

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to programattically navigate the dates in adjacent dates in Flutter Calendar.

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and how to quickly get started for configuration specifications.  You can also explore our Flutter Calendar example to understand how to create and manipulate data.

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