Android lock widget in Flutter?
Cut from / r / dartlang on Reddit:
I saw a Flotter / Dart Google IO presentation and decided I wanted to make a silly stupid Android app. It was very easy to get started, but I couldn't find anywhere how to make a simple lock widget.
Basically, I just want the app to periodically poll the JSON API and display some data on the android lock screen. Is this possible with Flutter now?
Disclaimer: I'm a python / golang developer for infrastructure / backend who never wrote anything about a mobile app.
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App widget layouts are based on RemoteViews, which do not support many kinds of widget widgets. Since it FlutterView
extends SurfaceView
to access the low-level graphics API, it cannot be embedded in an application widget.
In quote CommonsWare: "At best you can try to write your own home screen implementation that does this." But this is a much larger project than you probably had in mind.
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