Create LiveTemplate

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Local LiveTemplate

Live-template is a time saving development process. I'm going to show you how you can create your won custom live templates.

if you are on android-studio or IntelliJ , follow along
goto top left corner

File > settings > Editors > Live Templates

then

Let's create our group from left corner and give a name

click on our group and then + sing again now choose live template

im creating snackBar here,

• Abbreviation short form of this code that brings the Template text

• Description details of the template

• $END$ is a reserved keyword where our cursor will end. another one is Statement & used for wrap with snippets.

• bottom Statement we define the places.

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• Shorten FQ names used for shorting libraries name(this example doesn't count), check on Timer template

• a variable name must be start & end with $ like $variable$,

• Edit variables control variable names

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our ssbar is complete, save by clicking OK

we can find it here

simply type ssbar, it will show our custom live template

press enter/tab

if we have more variables press tab to move next variable.

check CustomTemplate.md

Sharing this ssbar Live-template to the Flutter-intelliJ community

Navigate to flutter-intellij/resources/liveTemplates/[flutter_miscellaneous.xml file.

We can see their live templates. The group named there is Flutter, Template named stless

<template name="stless" value="class $NAME$ extends StatelessWidget {&#10;  @override&#10;  Widget build(BuildContext context) {&#10;    return Container($END$);&#10;  }&#10;}&#10;" description="New Stateless widget" toReformat="false" toShortenFQNames="true">
<variable name="NAME" expression="" defaultValue="" alwaysStopAt="true" />
<context>
<option name="DART_TOPLEVEL" value="true" />
</context>
</template>

Let's add our ssbar inside Flutter group

<variable name="message" expression="" defaultValue="message" alwaysStopAt="true" />
<context>
<option name="DART_STATEMENT" value="true" />
</context>
</template>

We are using toReformat="true" , we don't have to give spaces and line numbers like restless .

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