GraphView

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Flutter GraphView is used to display data in graph structures. It can display Tree layout, Directed and Layered graph. Useful for Family Tree, Hierarchy View.

Overview

The library is designed to support different graph layouts and currently works excellent with small graphs.

You can have a look at the flutter web implementation here: http://graphview.surge.sh/

Layouts

Tree

Uses Walker's algorithm with Buchheim's runtime improvements (BuchheimWalkerAlgorithm class). Supports different orientations. All you have to do is using the BuchheimWalkerConfiguration.orientation with either ORIENTATION_LEFT_RIGHT, ORIENTATION_RIGHT_LEFT, ORIENTATION_TOP_BOTTOM and ORIENTATION_BOTTOM_TOP (default). Furthermore parameters like sibling-, level-, subtree separation can be set.

Useful for: Family Tree, Hierarchy View, Flutter Widget Tree,

Directed graph

Directed graph drawing by simulating attraction/repulsion forces. For this the algorithm by Fruchterman and Reingold (FruchtermanReingoldAlgorithm class) was implemented.

Useful for: Social network, Mind Map, Cluster, Graphs, Intercity Road Network,

Layered graph

Algorithm from Sugiyama et al. for drawing multilayer graphs, taking advantage of the hierarchical structure of the graph (SugiyamaAlgorithm class). You can also set the parameters for node and level separation using the SugiyamaConfiguration. Supports different orientations. All you have to do is using the SugiyamaConfiguration.orientation with either ORIENTATION_LEFT_RIGHT, ORIENTATION_RIGHT_LEFT, ORIENTATION_TOP_BOTTOM and ORIENTATION_BOTTOM_TOP (default).

Useful for: Hierarchical Graph which it can have weird edges/multiple paths

Usage

Currently GraphView must be used together with a Zoom Engine like InteractiveViewer. To change the zoom values just use the different attributes described in the InteractiveViewer class.

To create a graph, we need to instantiate the Graph class. Then we need to pass the layout and also optional the edge renderer.

void main() {
  runApp(MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) => MaterialApp(
        home: GraphViewPage(),
      );
}


class GraphViewPage extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _GraphViewPageState createState() => _GraphViewPageState();
}

class _GraphViewPageState extends State<GraphViewPage> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
        body: Column(
          mainAxisSize: MainAxisSize.max,
          children: [
            Wrap(
              children: [
                Container(
                  width: 100,
                  child: TextFormField(
                    initialValue: builder.siblingSeparation.toString(),
                    decoration: InputDecoration(labelText: "Sibling Sepration"),
                    onChanged: (text) {
                      builder.siblingSeparation = int.tryParse(text) ?? 100;
                      this.setState(() {});
                    },
                  ),
                ),
                Container(
                  width: 100,
                  child: TextFormField(
                    initialValue: builder.levelSeparation.toString(),
                    decoration: InputDecoration(labelText: "Level Seperation"),
                    onChanged: (text) {
                      builder.levelSeparation = int.tryParse(text) ?? 100;
                      this.setState(() {});
                    },
                  ),
                ),
                Container(
                  width: 100,
                  child: TextFormField(
                    initialValue: builder.subtreeSeparation.toString(),
                    decoration: InputDecoration(labelText: "Subtree separation"),
                    onChanged: (text) {
                      builder.subtreeSeparation = int.tryParse(text) ?? 100;
                      this.setState(() {});
                    },
                  ),
                ),
                Container(
                  width: 100,
                  child: TextFormField(
                    initialValue: builder.orientation.toString(),
                    decoration: InputDecoration(labelText: "Orientation"),
                    onChanged: (text) {
                      builder.orientation = int.tryParse(text) ?? 100;
                      this.setState(() {});
                    },
                  ),
                ),
                RaisedButton(
                  onPressed: () {
                    final Node node12 = Node(getNodeText());
                    var edge = graph.getNodeAtPosition(r.nextInt(graph.nodeCount()));
                    print(edge);
                    graph.addEdge(edge, node12);
                    setState(() {});
                  },
                  child: Text("Add"),
                )
              ],
            ),
             Expanded(
                      child: InteractiveViewer(
                          constrained: false,
                          boundaryMargin: EdgeInsets.all(100),
                          minScale: 0.01,
                          maxScale: 5.6,
                          child: GraphView(
                            graph: graph,
                            algorithm: BuchheimWalkerAlgorithm(builder, TreeEdgeRenderer(builder)),
                            paint: Paint()
                              ..color = Colors.green
                              ..strokeWidth = 1
                              ..style = PaintingStyle.stroke,
                          )),
                    ),
          ],
        )
    );
  }

  Random r = Random();

  int n = 1;

  Widget getNodeText() {
    return Container(
        padding: EdgeInsets.all(16),
        decoration: BoxDecoration(
          borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(4),
          boxShadow: [
            BoxShadow(color: Colors.blue[100], spreadRadius: 1),
          ],
        ),
        child: Text("Node ${n++}"));
  }

  final Graph graph = Graph();
  BuchheimWalkerConfiguration builder = BuchheimWalkerConfiguration();

  @override
  void initState() {
    final Node node1 = Node(getNodeText());
    final Node node2 = Node(getNodeText());
    final Node node3 = Node(getNodeText());
    final Node node4 = Node(getNodeText());
    final Node node5 = Node(getNodeText());
    final Node node6 = Node(getNodeText());
    final Node node8 = Node(getNodeText());
    final Node node7 = Node(getNodeText());
    final Node node9 = Node(getNodeText());
    final Node node10 = Node(getNodeText());
    final Node node11 = Node(getNodeText());
    final Node node12 = Node(getNodeText());

    graph.addEdge(node1, node2);
    graph.addEdge(node1, node3, paint: Paint()..color = Colors.red);
    graph.addEdge(node1, node4, paint: Paint()..color = Colors.blue);
    graph.addEdge(node2, node5);
    graph.addEdge(node2, node6);
    graph.addEdge(node6, node7, paint: Paint()..color = Colors.red);
    graph.addEdge(node6, node8, paint: Paint()..color = Colors.red);
    graph.addEdge(node4, node9);
    graph.addEdge(node4, node10, paint: Paint()..color = Colors.black);
    graph.addEdge(node4, node11, paint: Paint()..color = Colors.red);
    graph.addEdge(node11, node12);

    builder
      ..siblingSeparation = (100)
      ..levelSeparation = (150)
      ..subtreeSeparation = (150)
      ..orientation = BuchheimWalkerConfiguration.ORIENTATION_TOP_BOTTOM;
  }
}

Using any widget inside the Node

You can use any widget inside the node:

Node node = Node(getNodeText);

getNodeText() {
    return Container(
        padding: EdgeInsets.all(16),
        decoration: BoxDecoration(
          borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(4),
          boxShadow: [
            BoxShadow(color: Colors.blue[100], spreadRadius: 1),
          ],
        ),
        child: Text("Node ${n++}"));
  }

Using Paint to color and line thickness

You can specify the edge color and thickness by using a custom paint

getGraphView() {
        return GraphView(
                graph: graph,
                algorithm: SugiyamaAlgorithm(builder),
                paint: Paint()..color = Colors.green..strokeWidth = 1..style = PaintingStyle.stroke,
              );
}

Color Edges individually

Add an additional parameter paint. Applicable for ArrowEdgeRenderer for now.

var a = Node();
var b = Node();
 graph.addEdge(a, b, paint: Paint()..color = Colors.red);

Add focused Node

You can focus on a specific node. This will allow scrolling to that node in the future, but for now , using it we can drag a node with realtime updates in force directed graph

 onPanUpdate: (details) {
        var x = details.globalPosition.dx;
        var y = details.globalPosition.dy;
        setState(() {
          builder.setFocusedNode(graph.getNodeAtPosition(i));
          graph.getNodeAtPosition(i).position = Offset(x,y);
        });
      },

Examples

Rooted Tree

Rooted Tree (Bottom to Top)

Rooted Tree (Left to Right)

Rooted Tree (Right to Left)

Directed Graph

Layered Graph

Inspirations

This library is basically a dart representation of the excellent Android Library GraphView by Team-Blox

I would like to thank them for open sourcing their code for which reason I was able to port their code to dart and use for flutter.

Future Works

• [x] Add nodeOnTap
• [x] Add Layered Graph
• [] Use a builder pattern to draw items on demand.
• [] Animations
• [] Dynamic Node Position update for directed graph

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Nabil Mosharraf

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