Opacity
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What is Opacity?
Opacity is a Flutter widget that allows you to control the transparency of its child widget. It takes a single opacity argument, which is a value between 0.0 and 1.0, where 0.0 represents complete transparency and 1.0 represents complete opacity. The child widget is drawn with the specified opacity, making it appear translucent or transparent, depending on the value of the opacity argument. This can be useful for creating visual effects such as fading in or out, or to create partially transparent backgrounds or overlays. By using Opacity in combination with other widgets and animations, you can create sophisticated visual effects in your Flutter app.
Free resources to learn Opacity
- Official docsFade a Widget in and out
- ArticleAnimatedOpacity widget
More in stage 14: Animations
Opacity: common questions
Can I learn Opacity in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Opacity in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this Opacity tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 79 of 108 in the free Flutter roadmap, in stage 14, Animations. If you are new to Flutter, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.