IconButton class Null safety

A Material Design icon button.

An icon button is a picture printed on a Material widget that reacts to touches by filling with color (ink).

Icon buttons are commonly used in the AppBar.actions field, but they can be used in many other places as well.

If the onPressed callback is null, then the button will be disabled and will not react to touch.

Requires one of its ancestors to be a Material widget. In Material Design 3, this requirement no longer exists because this widget builds a subclass of ButtonStyleButton.

The hit region of an icon button will, if possible, be at least kMinInteractiveDimension pixels in size, regardless of the actual iconSize, to satisfy the touch target size requirements in the Material Design specification. The alignment controls how the icon itself is positioned within the hit region.

This sample shows an IconButton that uses the Material icon "volume_up" to increase the volume.

To create a local project with this code sample, run:
flutter create --sample=material.IconButton.1 mysample

Icon sizes

When creating an icon button with an Icon, do not override the icon's size with its Icon.size parameter, use the icon button's iconSize parameter instead. For example do this:

IconButton(
  iconSize: 72,
  icon: const Icon(Icons.favorite),
  onPressed: () {
    // ...
  },
),

Avoid doing this:

IconButton(
  icon: const Icon(Icons.favorite, size: 72),
  onPressed: () {
    // ...
  },
),

If you do, the button's size will be based on the default icon size, not 72, which may produce unexpected layouts and clipping issues.

Adding a filled background

Icon buttons don't support specifying a background color or other background decoration because typically the icon is just displayed on top of the parent widget's background. Icon buttons that appear in AppBar.actions are an example of this.

It's easy enough to create an icon button with a filled background using the Ink widget. The Ink widget renders a decoration on the underlying Material along with the splash and highlight InkResponse contributed by descendant widgets.

In this sample the icon button's background color is defined with an Ink widget whose child is an IconButton. The icon button's filled background is a light shade of blue, it's a filled circle, and it's as big as the button is.

To create a local project with this code sample, run:
flutter create --sample=material.IconButton.2 mysample

Material Design 3 introduced new types (standard and contained) of IconButtons. The default IconButton is the standard type, and contained icon buttons can be produced by configuring the IconButton widget's properties.

Material Design 3 also treats IconButtons as toggle buttons. In order to not break existing apps, the toggle feature can be optionally controlled by the isSelected property.

If isSelected is null it will behave as a normal button. If isSelected is not null then it will behave as a toggle button. If isSelected is true then it will show selectedIcon, if it false it will show the normal icon.

In Material Design 3, both IconTheme and IconButtonTheme are used to override the default style of IconButton. If both themes exist, the IconButtonTheme will override IconTheme no matter which is closer to the IconButton. Each IconButton's property is resolved by the order of precedence: widget property, IconButtonTheme property, IconTheme property and internal default property value.

In Material Design 3, the IconButton.visualDensity defaults to VisualDensity.standard for all platforms; otherwise the button will have a rounded rectangle shape if the IconButton.visualDensity is set to VisualDensity.compact. Users can customize it by using IconButtonTheme, IconButton.style or IconButton.visualDensity.

This sample shows creation of IconButton widgets for standard, filled, filled tonal and outlined types, as described in: https://m3.material.io/components/icon-buttons/overview

To create a local project with this code sample, run:
flutter create --sample=material.IconButton.3 mysample

This sample shows creation of IconButton widgets with toggle feature for standard, filled, filled tonal and outlined types, as described in: https://m3.material.io/components/icon-buttons/overview

To create a local project with this code sample, run:
flutter create --sample=material.IconButton.4 mysample

Constructors

IconButton({Key? key, double? iconSize, VisualDensity? visualDensity, EdgeInsetsGeometry? padding, AlignmentGeometry? alignment, double? splashRadius, Color? color, Color? focusColor, Color? hoverColor, Color? highlightColor, Color? splashColor, Color? disabledColor, required VoidCallback? onPressed, MouseCursor? mouseCursor, FocusNode? focusNode, bool autofocus = false, String? tooltip, bool? enableFeedback, BoxConstraints? constraints, ButtonStyle? style, bool? isSelected, Widget? selectedIcon, required Widget icon}): Creates an icon button.
const

Properties

alignment → AlignmentGeometry?: Defines how the icon is positioned within the IconButton.
final
autofocus → bool: True if this widget will be selected as the initial focus when no other node in its scope is currently focused.
final
color → Color?: The color to use for the icon inside the button, if the icon is enabled. Defaults to leaving this up to the icon widget.
final
constraints → BoxConstraints?: Optional size constraints for the button.
final
disabledColor → Color?: The color to use for the icon inside the button, if the icon is disabled. Defaults to the ThemeData.disabledColor of the current Theme.
final
enableFeedback → bool?: Whether detected gestures should provide acoustic and/or haptic feedback.
final
focusColor → Color?: The color for the button when it has the input focus.
final
focusNode → FocusNode?: An optional focus node to use as the focus node for this widget.
final
hashCode → int: The hash code for this object.
read-onlyinherited
highlightColor → Color?: The secondary color of the button when the button is in the down (pressed) state. The highlight color is represented as a solid color that is overlaid over the button color (if any). If the highlight color has transparency, the button color will show through. The highlight fades in quickly as the button is held down.
final
hoverColor → Color?: The color for the button when a pointer is hovering over it.
final
icon → Widget: The icon to display inside the button.
final
iconSize → double?: The size of the icon inside the button.
final
isSelected → bool?: The optional selection state of the icon button.
final
key → Key?: Controls how one widget replaces another widget in the tree.
finalinherited
mouseCursor → MouseCursor?: The cursor for a mouse pointer when it enters or is hovering over the button.
final
onPressed → VoidCallback?: The callback that is called when the button is tapped or otherwise activated.
final
padding → EdgeInsetsGeometry?: The padding around the button's icon. The entire padded icon will react to input gestures.
final
runtimeType → Type: A representation of the runtime type of the object.
read-onlyinherited
selectedIcon → Widget?: The icon to display inside the button when isSelected is true. This property can be null. The original icon will be used for both selected and unselected status if it is null.
final
splashColor → Color?: The primary color of the button when the button is in the down (pressed) state. The splash is represented as a circular overlay that appears above the highlightColor overlay. The splash overlay has a center point that matches the hit point of the user touch event. The splash overlay will expand to fill the button area if the touch is held for long enough time. If the splash color has transparency then the highlight and button color will show through.
final
splashRadius → double?: The splash radius.
final
style → ButtonStyle?: Customizes this button's appearance.
final
tooltip → String?: Text that describes the action that will occur when the button is pressed.
final
visualDensity → VisualDensity?: Defines how compact the icon button's layout will be.
final

Methods

build(BuildContext context) → Widget: Describes the part of the user interface represented by this widget.
override
createElement() → StatelessElement: Creates a StatelessElement to manage this widget's location in the tree.
inherited
debugDescribeChildren() → List<DiagnosticsNode>: Returns a list of DiagnosticsNode objects describing this node's children.
inherited
debugFillProperties(DiagnosticPropertiesBuilder properties) → void: Add additional properties associated with the node.
override
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic: Invoked when a non-existent method or property is accessed.
inherited
toDiagnosticsNode({String? name, DiagnosticsTreeStyle? style}) → DiagnosticsNode: Returns a debug representation of the object that is used by debugging tools and by DiagnosticsNode.toStringDeep.
inherited
toString({DiagnosticLevel minLevel = DiagnosticLevel.info}) → String: A string representation of this object.
inherited
toStringDeep({String prefixLineOne = '', String? prefixOtherLines, DiagnosticLevel minLevel = DiagnosticLevel.debug}) → String: Returns a string representation of this node and its descendants.
inherited
toStringShallow({String joiner = ', ', DiagnosticLevel minLevel = DiagnosticLevel.debug}) → String: Returns a one-line detailed description of the object.
inherited
toStringShort() → String: A short, textual description of this widget.
inherited

Operators

operator ==(Object other) → bool: The equality operator.
inherited

Static Methods

styleFrom({Color? foregroundColor, Color? backgroundColor, Color? disabledForegroundColor, Color? disabledBackgroundColor, Color? focusColor, Color? hoverColor, Color? highlightColor, Color? shadowColor, Color? surfaceTintColor, double? elevation, Size? minimumSize, Size? fixedSize, Size? maximumSize, double? iconSize, BorderSide? side, OutlinedBorder? shape, EdgeInsetsGeometry? padding, MouseCursor? enabledMouseCursor, MouseCursor? disabledMouseCursor, VisualDensity? visualDensity, MaterialTapTargetSize? tapTargetSize, Duration? animationDuration, bool? enableFeedback, AlignmentGeometry? alignment, InteractiveInkFeatureFactory? splashFactory}) → ButtonStyle: A static convenience method that constructs an icon button ButtonStyle given simple values. This method is only used for Material 3.

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IconButton class