flutter animate FAB between extended and normal type

This is my implementation using AnimatedSwitcher.

 import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

    void main() => runApp(MyApp());

    class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
      @override
      Widget build(BuildContext context) {
        return MaterialApp(
          title: 'Flutter Demo',
          debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
          theme: ThemeData(
            primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
          ),
          home: MyHomePage(),
        );
      }
    }

    class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
      @override
      _MyHomePageState createState() => _MyHomePageState();
    }

    class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
      bool isIcon = false;

      Widget _myWidget = FloatingActionButton(
        key: UniqueKey(),
        onPressed: () {},
        child: Icon(Icons.message),
      );
      void _d() {
        setState(() {
          _myWidget = isIcon
              ? FloatingActionButton(
                  mini: true,
                  key: UniqueKey(),
                  onPressed: () {},
                  child: Icon(Icons.messsage),
                )
              : FloatingActionButton.extended(
                  key: UniqueKey(),
                  onPressed: () {},
                  icon: Icon(Icons.message),
                  label: Text("Start chat"),
                );
          isIcon = !isIcon;
        });
      }

      Widget build(context) {
        return Scaffold(
            floatingActionButton: isIcon
                ? AnimatedSwitcher(
                    duration: Duration(
                      milliseconds: 100,
                    ),
                    transitionBuilder: (Widget child, Animation<double> animation) {
                      return FadeTransition(
                        child: child,
                        opacity:
                            animation.drive(CurveTween(curve: Curves.elasticOut)),
                      );
                    },
                    child: _myWidget,
                  )
                : AnimatedSwitcher(
                    duration: Duration(
                      milliseconds: 100,
                    ),
                    transitionBuilder: (Widget child, Animation<double> animation) {
                      return FadeTransition(
                        child: child,
                        opacity:
                            animation.drive(CurveTween(curve: Curves.easeOutQuint)),
                      );
                    },
                    child: _myWidget,
                  ),
            appBar: AppBar(),
            body: FlatButton(
                onPressed: () {
                  _d();
                },
                child: Text('Press here to change FAB')));
      }
    }

This is my implementation by keeping the same Hero tag for the two FABs.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      title: 'Flutter Demo',
      debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
      theme: ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
      ),
      home: MyHomePage(),
    );
  }
}

class MyHomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _MyHomePageState createState() => _MyHomePageState();
}

class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
  bool isIcon = false;

  Widget _myWidget = FloatingActionButton(
    heroTag: 'd',
    key: UniqueKey(),
    onPressed: () {},
    child: Icon(Icons.message),
  );
  void _d() {
    setState(() {
      _myWidget = isIcon
          ? FloatingActionButton(
              heroTag: 'b',
              key: UniqueKey(),
              onPressed: () {},
              child: Icon(Icons.message),
            )
          : FloatingActionButton.extended(
              heroTag: 'b',
              key: UniqueKey(),
              onPressed: () {},
              icon: Icon(Icons.mesage),
              label: Text("Start chat"),
            );
      isIcon = !isIcon;
    });
  }

  Widget build(context) {
    return Scaffold(
        floatingActionButton: _myWidget,
        appBar: AppBar(),
        body: FlatButton(
            onPressed: () {
              _d();
            },
            child: Text('Press here to change FAB')));
  }
}

Both give different results, try out with different animation curves as you like. Alter the size of the child ,setting Shape border, or setting mini: equal to true to get a better looking result .

I was able to get it to work using an AnimatedSwitcher with SizeTransition and FadeTransition. Please see code below.

floatingActionButton:
     FloatingActionButton.extended(
        onPressed: _onFabPress,
        label: AnimatedSwitcher(
          duration: Duration(seconds: 1),
          transitionBuilder: (Widget child, Animation<double> animation) =>
          FadeTransition(
            opacity: animation,
            child: SizeTransition(child:
            child,
              sizeFactor: animation,
              axis: Axis.horizontal,
            ),
          ) ,
          child: isExtended?
          Icon(Icons.arrow_forward):
          Row(
            children: [
              Padding(
                padding: const EdgeInsets.only(right: 4.0),
                child: Icon(Icons.add),
              ),
              Text("Add To Order")
            ],
          ),
        )
      )

The icon only view isn't fully circular, but I believe that can be fixed by adjusting padding.