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Flutter modal bottom sheet tutorial with examples

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Charles Freeborn
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The tutorial demonstrates how to create a modal bottom sheet in Flutter, a widget in Material Design used to display additional content while preventing interaction with the app's main content until dismissed. It explores the types of bottom sheets in Flutter—standard, modal, and expanding—emphasizing the modal type, which is commonly used in mobile apps to show supplemental information in response to user actions. The guide details the use of the showModalBottomSheet function, which requires a BuildContext and a WidgetBuilder to display a modal bottom sheet. A practical example is provided, showcasing a Flutter app with a button that triggers the display of a modal bottom sheet containing a list of options like 'Share,' 'Copy Link,' and 'Edit.' This tutorial is aimed at developers with basic Flutter knowledge and demonstrates how to enhance user experience in mobile apps by incorporating modal bottom sheets.