4 Best Flutter Packages to Generate Lorem Ipsum and Placeholder

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text used in many programming applications, while placeholder is shown before rendering a widget in order to keep space. Following are the best Flutter packages which can generate lorem ispum text and set placeholder.

Lorem Ispum Packages

faker

Faker is a popular fake data generator plugin which has many implementations in different language. This is a Dart port.

var faker = new Faker();
faker.internet.email();
faker.internet.ipv6Address();
faker.internet.userName();
faker.person.prefix();
faker.person.name();
faker.lorem.sentence();

lipsum

This is a lorem ipsum text generator which is based off of Andres Araujo’s lorem-dart plugin.

Placeholder Packages

flutter_placeholder_textlines

This package can create placeholder lines that emulates text in a widget. It is useful to display remote data widgets, while waiting for them to complete loading.

PlaceholderLines(
        count: 3,
        animate: true,
        color: Colors.grey,
      )

flutter_blurhash

This shows a compact representation of a placeholder for an image. The image is encoded into a blurry image under 30 characters for instant display.

class BlurHashApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const BlurHashApp({Key key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(title: Text("BlurHash")),
        body: SizedBox.expand(
          child: Center(
            child: AspectRatio(
              aspectRatio: 1.6,
              child: BlurHash(hash: "D5H2DC-PM+pV12g-m.wH2c712POv"),
            ),
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}