Plurals in Dart Example

Sometimes in our app we have to change sentences to plurals depends upon number of quantity, for example a food delivery app shows text like this:

• if user add 1 food item, shows 1 ITEM
• if user add second food item, shows 2 ITEMS
• If no items added, EMPTY CART
  

You can use Plurals in your Dart string by using intl package. It is also used for internationalization and localization and date/number formatting .

• Add dependency:

dependencies:
  intl: ^0.16.0

• Import package

import 'package:intl/intl.dart' as intl;

• Usage

  String showCartMessage(int quantity) {

    return Intl.plural(
      quantity,
      zero: 'EMPTY CART',
      one: '$quantity ITEM',
      other: '$quantity ITEMS',
      name: "ITEM",
      args: [quantity],
      examples: const {'quantity': 4},
      desc: "Food quantity to order from cart",
    );
  }

Pass your value in showCartMessage()and it will return a Stringtext to show

• Output

You can check the code at my GitHub Repo