I was just wondering if Flutter has an interface to access OS-level APIs such as capturing keystrokes and mouse events, user info, screenshot, OS build, taskbar icon, fullscreen, etc.
I am thinking of something like a service application that listens to those events globally in the background even if it if has no focus.
Thanks!
Flutter is a Portable UI Kit. if there is a plugin available for any system level service or feature you can use that plugin to take advantage of that system service or feature, otherwise Flutter is just a Portable UI Kit that can only create a GUI to be drawn on a canvas on your target system. It's only the existence of the Plugins that makes Flutter into an app development framework
Turned out it is not currently possible with Flutter. I opted to use JavaFX instead.
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Hi i am developing a flutter application and i am using getx statemanagment. The problem is when i put application in background and use some other applications like whatsapp,youtube,play a game or listen music, after some time when i resume my application from recents it restarts and all progress is lost.
I have already tried different solutions like moveTaskToback(true) with native android function call
Please help, I have almost finished my important application.
I'm not sure on why this happens, but some manufacturers have their own restrictions on apps running in the background. Nothing you can really do from a flutter perspective, the app lifecycle is the same on all devices.
Here is a link where they share some tips how to deal with this on Xiaomi from the users perspective.
https://dontkillmyapp.com/xiaomi
From the developers perspective, as you can read on the bottom of the article, the are no common workarounds known yet.
Talking about a desktop application now, not mobile or web.
Is it any widget in Flutter that will allow, for example, drag a folder, drop it in the application UI, and the app will read for example the path to that file or folder?
I have been reading about Draggable and DragTarget in Flutter, but i do think they are used for that purpose.
NOTE: it might not exist a widget for that purpose, so a strategy on how to do that in Flutter will also be appreciated.
Assuming you're talking about dragging from outside the application, it's not currently supported; Flutter #30719 would be the issue to watch/upvote.
Depending on the specific platform you might be able to implement it with a plugin in the short term (if you are familiar with native development on that platform), but that would likely be more work than contributing an implementation to Flutter itself.
Flutter has a dependency to support such behavior now. Check this link
https://pub.dev/packages/desktop_drop
On Android native to separate each application feature, structured the project, implementing architecture component and to make it easier to work in a team you can use modularization, so each person can focus on their respective work by focusing only on the module. If I want to make a flutter application with examples of 3 application features (login, register, profile) and want to implement modularization for each feature to make it easier to work as a team. How do you implement the modular? Are there references to its best practices for modularizing Flutter? Because if on Android Native there are already many related articles while I check for Flutter it hasn't found it yet.
Create each feature as a package(library) and add it whenever you want to the main app. For example in my app I use main.dart as a navigator manager and each screen is in different packages.
And this is an example of implementing it: https://github.com/rrifafauzikomara/flutter_modularization
I want to show a custom popup message whenever the user disconnects a cellular call. The problem is how to detect when the app is not running. any leads would be helpful.
It's been a while and there have been many developments.
First, there are some answers at How to create a service in Flutter to make an app to run always in background?
Also, flutter/Background processes will basically point you to medium/Executing Dart in the Background with Flutter Plugins and Geofencing (Sept 2018)
which is a Geofencing sample that involves a partnership between isolates, native Android/iOS code via MethodChannel, and PluginUtilities.getCallbackHandle (PluginUtilities)
Alas, there are many plugins available now:
https://pub.dev/packages/background_location
https://pub.dev/packages/android_alarm_manager (Android)
https://pub.dev/packages/background_fetch
https://pub.dev/packages/workmanager
https://pub.dev/packages/audio_service
I'm thinking of making a text expanding app with Electron. Is it even possible to make an Electron app that can do that? For instance, if the Electron app is open and I enter an abbreviation into Sublime Text and hit tab will it expand?
Electron allows you to make apps that run node scripts and display UI in a webkit based view.
The purpose of Electron is to provide native OS interactions to node and package everything in a distributable app. It does a fairly decent job covering basic OS interaction, however it is by no means a full API wrapper.
In short, no Electron itself will not do this. I doubt it is worth the time writing a node module for this purpose, you would be far better off writing a native app for whatever platform you are targeting.