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Flutter carousel slider

A flutter carousel widget, support infinite scroll, and custom child widget.

From serenader2014·Updated June 19, 2026·View on GitHub·

**flutter carousel slider** is A flutter carousel widget, support infinite scroll, and custom child widget. The project is written primarily in Dart, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2018. It has gained significant community traction with 1,689 stars and 604 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: autoplay, carousel-slider, flutter, infinite-scroll, widget.

Latest release: 1.2.0
March 18, 2019View Changelog →

carousel_slider

A carousel slider widget.

Features

  • Infinite scroll
  • Custom child widgets
  • Auto play

Supported platforms

  • Flutter Android
  • Flutter iOS
  • Flutter web
  • Flutter desktop

Live preview

https://serenader2014.github.io/flutter_carousel_slider/#/

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Installation

Add carousel_slider: ^5.1.2 to your pubspec.yaml dependencies. And import it:

dart
import 'package:carousel_slider/carousel_slider.dart';

How to use

Simply create a CarouselSlider widget, and pass the required params:

dart
CarouselSlider( options: CarouselOptions(height: 400.0), items: [1,2,3,4,5].map((i) { return Builder( builder: (BuildContext context) { return Container( width: MediaQuery.of(context).size.width, margin: EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 5.0), decoration: BoxDecoration( color: Colors.amber ), child: Text('text $i', style: TextStyle(fontSize: 16.0),) ); }, ); }).toList(), )

Params

dart
CarouselSlider( items: items, options: CarouselOptions( height: 400, aspectRatio: 16/9, viewportFraction: 0.8, initialPage: 0, enableInfiniteScroll: true, reverse: false, autoPlay: true, autoPlayInterval: Duration(seconds: 3), autoPlayAnimationDuration: Duration(milliseconds: 800), autoPlayCurve: Curves.fastOutSlowIn, enlargeCenterPage: true, enlargeFactor: 0.3, onPageChanged: callbackFunction, scrollDirection: Axis.horizontal, ) )

Since v2.0.0, you'll need to pass the options to CarouselOptions. For each option's usage you can refer to carousel_options.dart.

If you pass the height parameter, the aspectRatio parameter will be ignored.

Build item widgets on demand

This method will save memory by building items once it becomes necessary. This way they won't be built if they're not currently meant to be visible on screen.
It can be used to build different child item widgets related to content or by item index.

dart
CarouselSlider.builder( itemCount: 15, itemBuilder: (BuildContext context, int itemIndex, int pageViewIndex) => Container( child: Text(itemIndex.toString()), ), )

In order to manually control the pageview's position, you can create your own CarouselSliderController, and pass it to CarouselSlider. Then you can use the CarouselSliderController instance to manipulate the position.

dart
class CarouselDemo extends StatelessWidget { CarouselSliderController buttonCarouselController = CarouselSliderController(); Widget build(BuildContext context) => Column( children: <Widget>[ CarouselSlider( items: child, carouselController: buttonCarouselController, options: CarouselOptions( autoPlay: false, enlargeCenterPage: true, viewportFraction: 0.9, aspectRatio: 2.0, initialPage: 2, ), ), RaisedButton( onPressed: () => buttonCarouselController.nextPage( duration: Duration(milliseconds: 300), curve: Curves.linear), child: Text('→'), ) ] ); }

CarouselSliderController methods

.nextPage({Duration duration, Curve curve})

Animate to the next page

.previousPage({Duration duration, Curve curve})

Animate to the previous page

.jumpToPage(int page)

Jump to the given page.

.animateToPage(int page, {Duration duration, Curve curve})

Animate to the given page.

Screenshot

Basic text carousel demo:

simple

Basic image carousel demo:

image

A more complicated image carousel slider demo:

complicated image

Fullscreen image carousel slider demo:

fullscreen

Image carousel slider with custom indicator demo:

indicator

Custom CarouselSliderController and manually control the pageview position demo:

manual

Vertical carousel slider demo:

vertical

Simple on-demand image carousel slider, with image auto prefetch demo:

prefetch

No infinite scroll demo:

noloop

All screenshots above can be found at the example project.

License

MIT

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