How to add shadow to the text in flutter?

Here is a little playing around with the opacity, offset, and shadow radius:

The full code is here. Try it out yourself.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

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

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      home: Scaffold(
        body: ShadowDemo(),
      ),
    );
  }
}

class ShadowDemo extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _ShadowDemoState createState() => _ShadowDemoState();
}

class _ShadowDemoState extends State<ShadowDemo> {
  var _opacity = 1.0;
  var _xOffset = 0.0;
  var _yOffset = 0.0;
  var _blurRadius = 0.0;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Stack(
      children: <Widget>[
        Center(
            child: Text(
          'Flutter',
          style: TextStyle(
            fontSize: 100,
            color: Colors.blue.shade700,
            shadows: [
              Shadow(
                color: Colors.blue.shade900.withOpacity(_opacity),
                offset: Offset(_xOffset, _yOffset),
                blurRadius: _blurRadius,
              ),
            ],
          ),
        )),
        Align(
          alignment: Alignment.bottomCenter,
          child: Padding(
            padding: const EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 80.0),
            child: Column(
              children: <Widget>[
                Spacer(),
                Slider(
                  value: _opacity,
                  min: 0.0,
                  max: 1.0,
                  onChanged: (newValue) =>
                      {setState(() => _opacity = newValue)},
                ),
                Slider(
                  value: _xOffset,
                  min: -100,
                  max: 100,
                  onChanged: (newValue) =>
                      {setState(() => _xOffset = newValue)},
                ),
                Slider(
                  value: _yOffset,
                  min: -100,
                  max: 100,
                  onChanged: (newValue) =>
                      {setState(() => _yOffset = newValue)},
                ),
                Slider(
                  value: _blurRadius,
                  min: 0,
                  max: 100,
                  onChanged: (newValue) =>
                      {setState(() => _blurRadius = newValue)},
                ),
              ],
            ),
          ),
        )
      ],
    );
  }
}

Flutter now provides a way to do this without any work-arounds, as documented in issue 3402 and Gary Qian's answer below.

While this makes its way into the more stable channels, it's possible to fake a shadow using BackdropFilter.

import 'dart:ui' as ui;
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() {
  runApp(new MaterialApp(
    home: new MyApp(),
  ));
}

class ShadowText extends StatelessWidget {
  ShadowText(this.data, { this.style }) : assert(data != null);

  final String data;
  final TextStyle style;

  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new ClipRect(
      child: new Stack(
        children: [
          new Positioned(
            top: 2.0,
            left: 2.0,
            child: new Text(
              data,
              style: style.copyWith(color: Colors.black.withOpacity(0.5)),
            ),
          ),
          new BackdropFilter(
            filter: new ui.ImageFilter.blur(sigmaX: 2.0, sigmaY: 2.0),
            child: new Text(data, style: style),
          ),
        ],
      ),
    );
  }
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Scaffold(
      body: new Container(
        child: new Center(
          child: new ShadowText(
            'Hello world!',
            style: Theme.of(context).textTheme.display3,
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Or if you don't care about the blur, just make a Stack with a few some semitransparent Text widgets stacked not quite precisely on top of each other.

Like this:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class ShadowText extends StatelessWidget {

  final String data;
  final TextStyle style;
  final TextAlign textAlign;
  final TextDirection textDirection;
  final bool softWrap;
  final TextOverflow overflow;
  final double textScaleFactor;
  final int maxLines;

  const ShadowText(this.data, {
    Key key,
    this.style,
    this.textAlign,
    this.textDirection,
    this.softWrap,
    this.overflow,
    this.textScaleFactor,
    this.maxLines,
  }) : assert(data != null);

  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new ClipRect(
      child: new Stack(
        children: [
          new Positioned(
            top: 2.0,
            left: 2.0,
            child: new Text(
              data,
              style: style.copyWith(color: Colors.black.withOpacity(0.5)),
              textAlign: textAlign,
              textDirection: textDirection,
              softWrap: softWrap,
              overflow: overflow,
              textScaleFactor: textScaleFactor,
              maxLines: maxLines,
            ),
          ),
          new Text(
            data,
            style: style,
            textAlign: textAlign,
            textDirection: textDirection,
            softWrap: softWrap,
            overflow: overflow,
            textScaleFactor: textScaleFactor,
            maxLines: maxLines,
          ),
        ],
      ),
    );
  }
}

Text shadows are now a property of TextStyle as of this commit

To enable text shadows, please make sure you are on an up-to-date version of Flutter ($ flutter upgrade) and provide a List<Shadow> to TextStyle.shadows:

import 'dart:ui';

...

Text(
  'Hello, world!',
  style: TextStyle(
    shadows: <Shadow>[
      Shadow(
        offset: Offset(10.0, 10.0),
        blurRadius: 3.0,
        color: Color.fromARGB(255, 0, 0, 0),
      ),
      Shadow(
        offset: Offset(10.0, 10.0),
        blurRadius: 8.0,
        color: Color.fromARGB(125, 0, 0, 255),
      ),
    ],
  ),
),

...

Keep in mind that shadows will be drawn in the order provided.