FlutterQuill — Rich Text Editor for Flutter

2 min readMar 7, 2021

FlutterQuill is a rich text editor and a Quill component for Flutter.

This library is a WYSIWYG editor built for the modern mobile platform, with web compatibility under development. You can join our Slack Group for discussion.

https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_quill

Usage

See the example directory for a minimal example of how to use FlutterQuill. You typically just need to instantiate a controller:

QuillController _controller = QuillController.basic();

and then embed the toolbar and the editor, within your app. For example:

Column(
  children: [
    QuillToolbar.basic(controller: _controller),
    Expanded(
      child: Container(
        child: QuillEditor.basic(
          controller: _controller,
          readOnly: false, // true for view only mode
        ),
      ),
    )
  ],
)

Check out Sample Page for advanced usage.

Input / Output

This library uses Quill as an internal data format.

Use _controller.document.toDelta() to extract the deltas.
Use _controller.document.toPlainText() to extract plain text.

FlutterQuill provides some JSON serialisation support, so that you can save and open documents. To save a document as JSON, do something like the following:

var json = jsonEncode(_controller.document.toDelta().toJson());

You can then write this to storage.

To open a FlutterQuill editor with an existing JSON representation that you’ve previously stored, you can do something like this:

var myJSON = jsonDecode(incomingJSONText);
_controller = QuillController(
          document: Document.fromJson(myJSON),
          selection: TextSelection.collapsed(offset: 0));

Configuration

The QuillToolbar class lets you customise which formatting options are available. Sample Page provides sample code for advanced usage and configuration.