home_widget (Package of the Week)

[MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER: HomeScreen and LockScreen widgets help users see real-time information without navigating through their phone. These widgets aren't the same kind of widgets that we're used to in the Flutter world. Widgets are what Apple and Android call the tiny versions of apps that run on the HomeScreen, or in Apple's case, the LockScreen and the Today view as well. They're great for giving important information at a glance. We can't draw the widget UI using Flutter code, but thanks to the HomeWidget package, we can manage the data flow and updates of your HomeScreen widgets right from your Flutter code. Start by creating a native screen widget on the platform side of your app. For step-by-step instructions on how to do this, check out the codelab in the video description. Once that's done, you'll update it using data from your Flutter app with the save widget data method, which makes the data from on-device storage accessible to your HomeScreen widget. Specify a key and value for the data, then use the update widget method to tell the underlying platform that it should rerender the HomeScreen widget. Make sure to provide it with the ID of your HomeScreen widget. You can also use HomeWidget to copy complex Flutter widgets as images and render them to the HomeScreen. Maybe you want to add a chart to your weather app HomeScreen widget. First, build the chart in your Flutter app. Then call render HomeWidget method. The Flutter widget will be saved as an image that can be plugged into an image view in your HomeWidget. To find out more about what HomeWidget can do, head to pub.dev.

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Length: 1min 47sec (107 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 30 2023