Flutter: Add box shadow to a transparent Container

As you can see in the BoxShadow class, they subclass the toPaint() method like this :

Paint toPaint() {
  final Paint result = Paint()
    ..color = color
    ..maskFilter = MaskFilter.blur(BlurStyle.normal, blurSigma);
  assert(() {
    if (debugDisableShadows)
      result.maskFilter = null;
    return true;
  }());
  return result;
}

... with BlurStyle.normal instead of BlurStyle.outer as we wanted.

Let's just create a custom BoxShadow that takes the BlurStyle as parameter.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class CustomBoxShadow extends BoxShadow {
  final BlurStyle blurStyle;

  const CustomBoxShadow({
    Color color = const Color(0xFF000000),
    Offset offset = Offset.zero,
    double blurRadius = 0.0,
    this.blurStyle = BlurStyle.normal,
  }) : super(color: color, offset: offset, blurRadius: blurRadius);

  @override
  Paint toPaint() {
    final Paint result = Paint()
      ..color = color
      ..maskFilter = MaskFilter.blur(this.blurStyle, blurSigma);
    assert(() {
      if (debugDisableShadows)
        result.maskFilter = null;
      return true;
    }());
    return result;
  }
}

Now we can use it like this :

new CustomBoxShadow(
  color: Colors.black,
  offset: new Offset(5.0, 5.0),
  blurRadius: 5.0,
  blurStyle: BlurStyle.outer
)

Container(
height: 200.0,
decoration: BoxDecoration(
    boxShadow: [
      BoxShadow(
        color: Colors.black,
        blurRadius: 10.0, // soften the shadow
        spreadRadius: 7.0, //extend the shadow
        offset: Offset(
          5.0, // Move to right 10  horizontally
          5.0, // Move to bottom 5 Vertically
        ),
      )
    ],
),
child: Text(" 🌹", style:TextStyle(fontSize:30)),

);