AuthOwl for Flutter

Complete Flutter guide

Flutter widgets, provider, and session management for AuthOwl.

dependencies:
  authowl: ^0.1.0
  flutter_secure_storage: ^9.0.0

Import the provider, managed authentication screens, and headless client from one canonical entrypoint:

import 'package:authowl/authowl.dart';

Setup

AuthOwlProvider(
  publishableKey: const String.fromEnvironment('AUTHOWL_PUBLISHABLE_KEY'),
  apiUrl: 'https://api.authowl.dev',
  storage: keychainStorage,     // see below
  child: const MyApp(),
)

Built-in controls use AuthOwl gold (#F5B84C) by default. The project's dashboard color replaces it automatically. An app-level override has highest priority when needed:

AuthOwlProvider(
  primaryColor: const Color(0xff0ea5a4),
  // ...publishableKey, apiUrl, storage, and child
)

The session cookie is a bearer credential - anything holding it is the signed-in user until it expires - so it belongs in the OS keychain, never in SharedPreferences, which is unencrypted:

class KeychainStorage implements AuthOwlStorage {
  final _store = const FlutterSecureStorage();

  @override
  Future<String?> read(String key) => _store.read(key: key);
  @override
  Future<void> write(String key, String value) => _store.write(key: key, value: value);
  @override
  Future<void> delete(String key) => _store.delete(key: key);
}

A pk_live_… key against a plain-http origin is refused outright: passwords and the session cookie would travel in the clear. Loopback http works with a pk_test_… key for local development.

Widgets

AuthOwlSignIn(
  onSignedIn: () => context.go('/home'),
  onSecondFactorRequired: () => context.go('/mfa'),
  onMfaEnrollmentRequired: () => context.go('/mfa/enrol'),
)

AuthOwlSignUp(onSignedUp: ({required sessionCreated}) =>
  context.go(sessionCreated ? '/home' : '/check-your-email'))

AuthOwlEmailOtpForm(onSignedIn: () => context.go('/home'))

AuthOwlSignIn reports success only once a session exists. A two-factor challenge calls onSecondFactorRequired; a session held at mandatory MFA enrolment calls onMfaEnrollmentRequired. Neither path calls onSignedIn.

AuthOwlSignUp reports whether a session was created. Projects requiring email verification create none.

The provider loads the project's public configuration once. Built-in widgets hide disabled methods, enforce the configured password length, collect required legal consent, and send the accepted consent version automatically.

Session state

final scope = AuthOwlProvider.of(context);
if (scope.session.isSignedIn) {
  Text('Hi, ${scope.session.user!.email}');
}

A session held at required-MFA enrolment is deliberately not signed in - treating it as authenticated would let an app skip the enrolment gate.

Localization

AuthOwlProvider(locale: 'ar', ...)

Strings come from lib/src/i18n/catalog.g.dart, generated from @authowl/core so the wording matches the web and React Native SDKs exactly. CI fails if it drifts. It is not auto-detected from the device: a phone set to Arabic does not mean the app is localized, and switching only the auth screens is worse than defaulting. The provider also applies the matching right-to-left text direction to its subtree.

To regenerate after changing the shared catalogs:

pnpm --filter @authowl/core run build && node scripts/generate-dart-i18n.mjs

Social sign-in and passkeys

Use the headless client with your provider's native SDK:

final result = await scope.client.signInWithIdToken(
  provider: 'google',
  idToken: googleCredential.idToken!,
);

Redirect OAuth is unsupported on purpose - it completes inside a system browser whose cookie jar this client cannot read, so the session would land somewhere the app can never see it.

License

MIT

Libraries

authowl

AuthOwl for Flutter: provider, widgets, and localized auth screens.

authowl_client

AuthOwl headless client SDK for Flutter apps.