Input

Gestures

Inside package:flame/gestures.dart you can find a whole set of mixins which can be included on your game class instance to be able to receive touch input events. Below you can see the full list of these mixins and its methods:

- TapDetector
  - onTap
  - onTapCancel
  - onTapDown
  - onTapUp

- SecondaryTapDetector
  - onSecondaryTapDown
  - onSecondaryTapUp
  - onSecondaryTapCancel

- DoubleTapDetector
  - onDoubleTap

- LongPressDetector
  - onLongPress
  - onLongPressStart
  - onLongPressMoveUpdate
  - onLongPressUp
  - onLongPressEnd

- VerticalDragDetector
  - onVerticalDragDown
  - onVerticalDragStart
  - onVerticalDragUpdate
  - onVerticalDragEnd
  - onVerticalDragCancel

- HorizontalDragDetector
  - onHorizontalDragDown
  - onHorizontalDragStart
  - onHorizontalDragUpdate
  - onHorizontalDragEnd
  - onHorizontalDragCancel

- ForcePressDetector
  - onForcePressStart
  - onForcePressPeak
  - onForcePressUpdate
  - onForcePressEnd

- PanDetector
  - onPanDown
  - onPanStart
  - onPanUpdate
  - onPanEnd
  - onPanCancel

- ScaleDetector
  - onScaleStart
  - onScaleUpdate
  - onScaleEnd

 - MultiTouchTapDetector
  - onTap
  - onTapCancel
  - onTapDown
  - onTapUp

 - MultiTouchDragDetector
  - onReceiveDrag

Many of these detectors can conflict with each other. For example, you can't register both Vertical and Horizontal drags, so not all of them can be used together.

It is also not possible to mix advanced detectors (MultiTouch*) with basic detectors as they will always win the gesture arena and the basic detectors will never be triggered. So for example, you can use both MultiTouchDragDetector and MultiTouchDragDetector together, but if you try to use MultiTouchTapDetector and PanDetector, no events will be triggered for the later.

Flame's GestureApi is provided byt Flutter's Gestures Widgets, including GestureDetector widget and RawGestureDetector widget, you can also read more about Flutter's gestures here.

Example

class MyGame extends Game with TapDetector {
  // Other methods omitted

  @override
  void onTapDown(TapDownDetails details) {
    print("Player tap down on ${details.globalPosition.dx} - ${details.globalPosition.dy}");
  }

  @override
  void onTapUp(TapUpDetails details) {
    print("Player tap up on ${details.globalPosition.dx} - ${details.globalPosition.dy}");
  }
}

You can also check a more complete example here.

Tapable components

Flame also offers a simple helper to make it easier to handle tap events on PositionComponent. By adding the HasTapableComponents mixin to your game, and using the mixin Tapable on your components can override the following methods, enabling easy to use tap events on yours components.

  void onTapCancel() {}
  void onTapDown(TapDownDetails details) {}
  void onTapUp(TapUpDetails details) {}

Minimal component example:

import 'package:flame/components/component.dart';
import 'package:flame/components/mixins/tapable.dart';

class TapableComponent extends PositionComponent with Tapable {

  // update and render omitted

  @override
  void onTapUp(TapUpDetails details) {
    print("tap up");
  }

  @override
  void onTapDown(TapDownDetails details) {
    print("tap down");
  }

  @override
  void onTapCancel() {
    print("tap cancel");
  }
}

class MyGame extends BaseGame with HasTapableComponents {
  MyGame() {
    add(TapableComponent());
  }
}

Keyboard

Flame provides a simple way to access Flutter's features regarding accessing Keyboard input events.

To use it, just add the KeyboardEvents mixin to your game class. When doing this you will need to implement the onKeyEvent method, this method is called every time a keyboard event happens, and it receives an instance of the Flutter class RawKeyEvent. This event can be used to get information about what occurred, like if it was a key down or key up event, and which key was pressed etc.

Minimal example:

import 'package:flame/game.dart';
import 'package:flame/keyboard.dart';
import 'package:flutter/services.dart';

class MyGame extends Game with KeyboardEvents {
  // update and render omitted

  @override
  void onKeyEvent(e) {
    final bool isKeyDown = e is RawKeyDownEvent;
    print(" Key: ${e.data.keyLabel} - isKeyDown: $isKeyDown");
  }
}