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I am wondering, if anyone knows of a way to remove the back button that shows up on the appBar in a flutter app when you use Navigator.pushNamed to go to another page. The reason I do not want it on this resulting page is that it is coming from the navigation and I want users to use the logout button instead, so that the session starts over.

Robert
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I believe the solutions are the following

You actually either:

  • Don't want to display that ugly back button ( :] ), and thus go for : AppBar(...,automaticallyImplyLeading: false,...);

  • Don't want the user to go back - replacing current view - and thus go for: Navigator.pushReplacementNamed(## your routename here ##);

  • Don't want the user to go back - replacing a certain view back in the stack - and thus use: Navigator.pushNamedAndRemoveUntil(## your routename here ##, f(Route<dynamic>)→bool); where f is a function returning truewhen meeting the last view you want to keep in the stack (right before the new one);

  • Don't want the user to go back - EVER - emptying completely the navigator stack with: Navigator.pushNamedAndRemoveUntil(context, ## your routename here ##, (_) => false);

starball
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Fabio Veronese
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A simple way to remove the back button in the AppBar is to set automaticallyImplyLeading to false.

appBar: AppBar(
  title: Text("App Bar without Back Button"),
  automaticallyImplyLeading: false,
),
CopsOnRoad
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Jackpap
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    While this is simple to implement, for the given scenario, `Navigator.pushReplacementNamed` is the correct solution. What you suggest is a workaround that if applied in all scenarios, may eventually infer wrong behavior, like somewhere that someone would like that the `AppBar` continues to imply the leading behavior (i.e.: back navigation button) – Guilherme Matuella Aug 13 '20 at 19:39
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    Although it removes the back arrow icon but still you can go back by pressing back button of device – vishalknishad Oct 23 '20 at 19:03
  • What is the best way to remove the back button on Android only, so that an Android user must use the device's back button to go back, but an iOS user sees an AppBar back button? – Lane Faison Dec 16 '20 at 17:43
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You can remove the back button by passing an empty new Container() as the leading argument to your AppBar.

If you find yourself doing this, you probably don't want the user to be able to press the device's back button to get back to the earlier route. Instead of calling pushNamed, try calling Navigator.pushReplacementNamed to cause the earlier route to disappear.

The function pushReplacementNamed will remove the previous route in the backstack and replace it with the new route.

Full code sample for the latter is below.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class LogoutPage extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Scaffold(
      appBar: new AppBar(
        title: new Text("Logout Page"),
      ),
      body: new Center(
        child: new Text('You have been logged out'),
      ),
    );
  }

}
class MyHomePage extends StatelessWidget {

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new Scaffold(
      appBar: new AppBar(
        title: new Text("Remove Back Button"),
      ),
      floatingActionButton: new FloatingActionButton(
        child: new Icon(Icons.fullscreen_exit),
        onPressed: () {
          Navigator.pushReplacementNamed(context, "/logout");
        },
      ),
    );
  }
}

void main() {
  runApp(new MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return new MaterialApp(
      title: 'Flutter Demo',
      home: new MyHomePage(),
      routes: {
        "/logout": (_) => new LogoutPage(),
      },
    );
  }
}
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Collin Jackson
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    @Collin, pushReplacementNamed doesn't seem to remove the possibility of going back with the system back arrow. – Jackpap Aug 24 '17 at 15:00
  • @Collin Jackson, Does `pushReplacementNamed()` dispose previous screen widget (and all depending data & states)? – Dmitriy Blokhin Nov 27 '18 at 07:39
  • @Jackpap that's because it really shows the arrow if there is a previous route. If it's the only route, then there's nothing to go back to. In your case, use the empty Container() method. – ThinkDigital Jul 25 '19 at 22:17
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    The empty container method seems to result in a space where the back button would have been so the Appbar title is moved across slightly. Still not an ideal method. – Hasen Jul 28 '19 at 15:56
  • appBar: AppBar( title: Text("App Bar without Back Button"), automaticallyImplyLeading: false, ), As shown below is the correct method I guess. – Rabi Roshan Apr 13 '20 at 14:09
  • This does get rid of the back button on the app bar but it would still occupy space there if you have center title set to true, and hence you won't have the title in center of appbar, so a better approach would be to use ```automaticallyImplyLeading: false``` – Mahesh Jamdade Sep 12 '20 at 03:24
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automaticallyImplyLeading:

This checks whether we want to apply the back widget(leading widget) over the app bar or not. If the automaticallyImplyLeading is false then automatically space is given to the title and if If the leading widget is true, then this parameter has no effect.

void main() {
  runApp(
    new MaterialApp(
      home: new Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          automaticallyImplyLeading: false, // Used for removing back buttoon. 
          title: new Center(
            child: new Text("Demo App"),
          ),
        ),
        body: new Container(
          child: new Center(
            child: Text("Hello world!"),
          ),
        ),
      ),
    ),
  );
}  
Jitesh Mohite
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just use automaticallyImplyLeading in AppBar()

appBar: AppBaar(
  automaticallyImplyLeading: false,
)
Mostafa Mahmoud
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Use this for slivers AppBar

SliverAppBar (
        automaticallyImplyLeading: false,
        elevation: 0,
        brightness: Brightness.light,
        backgroundColor: Colors.white,
        pinned: true,
      ),

Use this for normal Appbar

 appBar: AppBar(
    title: Text
    ("You decide on the appbar name"
    style: TextStyle(color: Colors.black,), 
    elevation: 0,
    brightness: Brightness.light,
    backgroundColor: Colors.white,
    automaticallyImplyLeading: false,

),
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If you want to hide back button use below code

class SecondScreen extends StatelessWidget {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Scaffold(
  appBar: AppBar(
    title: Text('Remove Back Button'),
    
    //hide back button
    automaticallyImplyLeading: false,
   ),
  body: Center(
    child: Container(),
  ),
);
}
}

If you want to hide back button and stop the pop action use below code

class SecondScreen extends StatelessWidget {

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
 return new WillPopScope(

  onWillPop: () async => false,
  child: Scaffold(
    appBar: AppBar(
      title: Text("Second Screen"),
      //For hide back button
      automaticallyImplyLeading: false,
    ),
    body: Center(
        child: Column(
          mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
          crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.center,
          children: <Widget>[
            RaisedButton(
              child: Text('Back'),
              onPressed: () {
                Navigator.pop(context);
              },
            ),
          ],
        )
    ),
  ),
);
 }


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Sfili_81
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ShigaSuresh
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The AppBar widget has a property called automaticallyImplyLeading. By default it's value is true. If you don't want flutter automatically build the back button for you then just make the property false.

appBar: AppBar(
  title: Text("YOUR_APPBAR_TITLE"), 
  automaticallyImplyLeading: false,
),

To add your custom back button

appBar: AppBar(
  title: Text("YOUR_APPBAR_TITLE"), 
  automaticallyImplyLeading: false,
  leading: YOUR_CUSTOM_WIDGET(),
),
Shanto
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If navigating to another page . Navigator.pushReplacement() can be used. It can be used If you're navigating from login to home screen. Or you can use .
AppBar(automaticallyImplyLeading: false)

S.R Keshav
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SliverAppBar( automaticallyImplyLeading: false,}

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When you use Navigator.pushNamed the back-arrow appears automatically on the new screen's appBar for going back to the previous screen. If you don't want this functionality all you have to do is write automaticallyImplyLeading: false in your appBar properties.

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Just Make it transparent, and no action while pressend

AppBar(
            leading: IconButton(
              icon: Icon(
                Icons.arrow_back,
                color: Colors.white.withOpacity(0),
              ),
              onPressed: () {},
            ),
Artron
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If you want to remove space as well set titleSpacing:0 .

 appBar: AppBar(
        title: Text("How do you rate us?"),
        automaticallyImplyLeading: false,
        titleSpacing: 0,
        actions: [
          IconButton(
              onPressed: () {
                Navigator.pop(context);
              },
              icon: Icon(Icons.close))
        ],
      ),
Zia
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in flutter >= 3.10 set automaticallyImplyLeading: false,

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in your appBar, put automaticallyImplyLeading in false :

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        automaticallyImplyLeading: false,
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  appBar: new AppBar(title: new Text("SmartDocs SPAY"),backgroundColor: Colors.blueAccent, automaticallyImplyLeading:false,
        leading: new Container(),
      ),

It is working Fine

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