I'm new to Flutter having been burned attempting to use PWA/Chrome to create a mobile app with native behaviour. So I don't get fooled again. I'm trying to understand what, if any, are the restrictions of Flutter on mobile.
Specifically, my app needs the following features (I'll use the Android terms but the equivalent iOS features also apply):-
receive Firebase Cloud Messages
those messages to be silent (ie. they are consumed by the app rather than go straght to a notification)
background http access (an Android Service)
local storage (more SQL-Lite than KV pairs)
Raise device notifications ...
... such notifications to have a deep link into the app, and ...
... have the ability to send a reply from the notification without opening the app
intercept incoming SMS (Android Telephony.Sms.Intents )
desktop widget
read the user's Gallery
access Location
intelligently guide the user to enable any necessary app permissions, such as Location, read Gallery, notifications, lock screen, etc
Is this kind of native behaviour within Flutter's realm?
Flutter, over the past years has grown mature enough to be doing all the above functionalities.
Here is the list of packages that you can use to make the app.
receive Firebase Cloud Messages ==> firebase_messaging 12.0.2
those messages to be silent ==> notifications 2.0.1
background http access ==> background_fetch
local storage ==> shared_preferences
Raise device notifications ==> in_app_notifications
deep link into the app ==> Can use branch.io
have the ability to send a reply from the notification ==> using platform channels
intercept incoming SMS ==> Telephony
desktop widget ==> currently not possible using flutter, MacOS yes, in some ways.
read the user's Gallery ==> Photo_Gallery
access Location ==> Location(Fine Access)
intelligently guide ==> Coach_Mark
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Unfortunately after Google Nearby was discontinued, there is no longer a solution to send notifications to a user on BLE detection without a third party app installed to do so.
The only workaround is to develop a third party app to do the detecting and notifying. Keep in mind that the way Google implemented this was with the Google Play Services app, so an app was still required to send the notifications. (It was just an app that was installed by default on most phones sold outside of mainland China.). And it didn't even work unless a user had opted in, something that few ever did.
Google's Nearby discontinuation basically says Google is no longer willing to use their app to send notifications for you. So you must use your own app or the app of a different partner.
There are other third party apps that track a user's location and send notifications -- such apps are often popular "free" games. But while the install base of these apps can be in the hundreds of millions they do not approach the install base of Google Play Services. These apps can also be a bit "shady" about their practices, and to my knowledge do not have a public policy about how you can get them to send notifications for you or let users opt-in or opt-out.
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You can start from the friendly chat app based on Firebase. Take a look here https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/firebase-android/#0 . For the "auto reply" functionality you will have to write your own cloud function. Read some docs about that
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Am i missing any new feature? Or is this not possible with the current libraries?
Firebase Notifications at launch just supports Android and iOS.
For now, you can implement FCM directly for the web, see the documentation for FCM, which will allow pushing messages via the API.