Flutter: Tabbar vs BottomNavigationBar

Question

I'm trying to figure out the best way for bottom navigation with swipe enabled. I found two promising widgets: Tabbar (with TabBarView) and BottomNavigationBar. The tabbar is easy to use and has a controller property which allows swiping between tabs easily. But there is no way to set the backgroundcolor (or am I wrong?). The bottomnavigationbar allows customizability outside of the appBar but doesn't work with controllers. So how would I work with the bottomnavigationbar? Should I manually show and hide the page/widget?

Answer 1

Setting the background color on a TabBar can be done by wrapping it in a Material of the color you want. It's unusual to have one of these at the bottom of the screen though.

You could use the BottomNavigationBar's onTap to trigger page changes in a PageView if you want the views to be swipeable.