featurely

In-app feedback for Flutter apps, backed by a self-hosted Featurely instance: end users browse feature requests and issue reports, vote, comment, and submit new feedback (with an optional screenshot and email) — your team triages everything in the Featurely web dashboard.

• Two-line integration — init once, show anywhere.
• Native-feeling — inherits your accent color, corner radius, font, and light/dark mode; iOS and Android adaptive details.
• 25 languages including RTL (ar, he), resolved independently of the host app's locale.
• Automatic sandbox/live separation — one API key; debug builds report to Sandbox (with an unmistakable amber SANDBOX strip), release builds to Live. Test data can never pollute Live.
• Android and iOS only.

Getting started

dependencies:
  featurely: ^0.2.0

Initialize once at startup (idempotent — call it on every launch), then present the sheet from any trigger:

import 'package:featurely/featurely.dart';

Future<void> main() async {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
  await Featurely.init(
    baseUrl: 'https://feedback.example.com', // your instance, no /api/v1
    apiKey: const String.fromEnvironment('FEATURELY_API_KEY'),
  );
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

// From any button:
await Featurely.show(context);

Environments

Each project has a single API key (always available in Project Settings); the SDK declares the environment on every request. By default it follows the build type — debug builds report to Sandbox, release builds to Live — so there is nothing to configure. For special flavors (e.g. a staging release build that should stay in Sandbox), override it at init:

await Featurely.init(
  baseUrl: …,
  apiKey: …,
  environment: FeaturelyEnvironment.sandbox,
);

Sandbox sessions render an amber SANDBOX strip across the top of the sheet so QA always knows which mode they're in. It is never a user-facing runtime toggle.

Theming

await Featurely.init(
  baseUrl: …,
  apiKey: …,
  theme: const FeaturelyTheme(
    accentColor: Color(0xFFD9572B), // default: your Theme's colorScheme.primary
    cornerRadius: 16,               // default: 12
    brightness: Brightness.dark,    // default: follows the host theme
    fontFamily: 'Inter',            // default: host font
  ),
);

Status pill colors and the sandbox strip are fixed by design and are not themed. On-accent text color is computed by contrast, so any accent hue stays legible in light and dark.

Localization

The sheet ships all 25 Featurely locales and resolves its language from the device locale (or the locale: override passed to init), independent of your MaterialApp's locale — fallback chain: exact match → base language → English. ar and he render fully right-to-left.

Identity: login / logout

By default users are pseudonymous per install. If your app has its own accounts, link them so votes follow the user across devices and reinstalls:

await Featurely.init(…, userId: currentUser.id); // or:
await Featurely.login(currentUser.id);           // on sign-in
await Featurely.logout();                        // on sign-out

• Pass an opaque internal id, never an email or other PII.
• login is idempotent and safe on every launch; switching accounts is handled automatically (the SDK rotates its device identity between users).
• logout starts the next user of the device with a clean slate.

Featurely.setPlan('Pro Monthly') updates the plan label attached to submissions (drives the PAYING badge in your dashboard).

Observability

The sheet handles every failure with its own localized UI, so errors are invisible to the host by default. To log or report them (a rotated key, an unreachable instance), pass onError — it receives each API operation that ultimately fails, after retries:

await Featurely.init(
  …,
  onError: (operation, error) => log.warning('featurely $operation: $error'),
);

error is a FeaturelyApiException (branch on its code) or a FeaturelyNetworkException; neither ever contains the API key. Exceptions thrown by the listener are swallowed — they never break the SDK's own handling.

Screenshots & permissions

The submit form offers one optional screenshot from the photo library (no camera). No Info.plist entry is needed on iOS 14+ (PHPicker), and no runtime permission on Android (Photo Picker on API 33+; older APIs are handled by image_picker's legacy path). HEIC images are transcoded to PNG automatically before upload.

Example app

example/ is a runnable host app for manual QA against a local featurely-app docker instance:

cd example
flutter run \
  --dart-define=FEATURELY_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000 \
  --dart-define=FEATURELY_API_KEY=fk_…

(Use http://10.0.2.2:3000 on the Android emulator.) It exposes theming knobs, a locale override, and login/logout buttons.

Requirements

• Flutter >=3.27.0, Dart ^3.6.0
• Android & iOS (no web/desktop)
• A Featurely instance serving the frozen /api/v1 contract (any server version — the SDK decodes leniently and never breaks on additive changes)