✨ shimmer_ai – Effortless Shimmer Effect for Any Flutter Widget

shimmer_ai is a minimal, easy-to-use Flutter package that lets you apply beautiful shimmer loading effects on any widget with just one line of code.

Perfect for skeleton loading screens, user placeholders, or preloading UI states in Flutter apps. Built with performance and simplicity in mind.

🚀 Features

• ⚡ Add shimmer to any widget – Text, Image, Cards, Buttons, ListTiles, etc.
• 🧠 Minimal API – Just use .withShimmerAi(loading: true)
• 🎨 Customizable shimmer color and radius
• 📱 Responsive and fast with zero configuration
• ✅ Fully tested and production-ready

Example:

Text('Hello').withShimmerAi(loading: true);

📦 Getting Started

To use shimmer_ai, add it to your pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  shimmer_ai: ^1.0.0

Then run flutter pub get in your terminal.

💡 Usage

Wrap any widget using the shimmer extension:

import 'package:shimmer_ai/shimmer_ai.dart';

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return Column(
    children: [
      // Shimmer on text
      Text('Welcome').withShimmerAi(loading: true),

      // Shimmer on image
      Image.network('https://example.com/image.jpg')
          .withShimmerAi(loading: true),

      // Shimmer on card
      Card(
        child: ListTile(
          title: Text('User'),
        ),
      ).withShimmerAi(loading: isLoading),
    ],
  );
}

Control shimmer style using optional parameters:

Text('Loading...')
  .withShimmerAi(
    loading: true,
    baseColor: Colors.grey.shade300,
    highlightColor: Colors.grey.shade100,
    borderRadius: 12,
  );

📁 Example App

Check out the full working demo in the /example folder:

git clone https://github.com/karanpadaliya/shimmer_ai.git
cd shimmer_ai/example
flutter run

📚 Additional Information

• For issues or feature requests, visit the GitHub Issue Tracker
• Pull requests and contributions are welcome
• Maintained by Karan Padaliya – a passionate Flutter developer
• License: MIT

✨ If you like this package, don't forget to ⭐ it on pub.dev and GitHub!

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