background_service_easy 1.0.0

A Flutter package for simplified background service management using 'flutter_background_service'.

Introduction

A Flutter package for managing background services in your Flutter applications.

Getting Started

To use this package, add background_service_easy as a dependency in your pubspec.yaml file.

dependencies:
  background_service_easy: ^1.0.0

Configuration

• This package provides different configurations for iOS and Android using the flutter_background_service and flutter_background_service_android packages.

• For iOS, you can configure it using the IosConfiguration class, and for Android, you can configure it using the AndroidConfiguration class.

iOS

• Enable background_fetch capability in xcode (optional), if you wish ios to execute IosConfiguration.onBackground callback.

• For iOS 13 and Later (using BGTaskScheduler), insert lines below into your ios/Runner/Info.plist

<key>BGTaskSchedulerPermittedIdentifiers</key>
<array>
    <string>dev.flutter.background.refresh</string>
</array>

• You can also using your own custom identifier In ios/Runner/AppDelegate.swift add line below

import UIKit
import Flutter
import flutter_background_service_ios // add this

@UIApplicationMain
@objc class AppDelegate: FlutterAppDelegate {
  override func application(
    _ application: UIApplication,
    didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?
  ) -> Bool {
    /// Add this line
    SwiftFlutterBackgroundServicePlugin.taskIdentifier = "your.custom.task.identifier"

    GeneratedPluginRegistrant.register(with: self)
    return super.application(application, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: launchOptions)
  }
}

Usage

import 'package:background_service_easy/background_service_easy.dart';

void main() {
    // the constructor automatically set to foreground when initialized
  BackgroundService( 
    onForeground: () {
      // Callback when the service is set to the foreground.
    },
    onBackground: () {
      // Callback when the service is set to the background or app is closed.
    },
    onStop: () {
      // Callback when the service is stopped.
    },
  );
}

void setToBackground() {
  BackgroundService.setToBackground(); // default. call only when it is set to background
}

void setToBackground() {
  BackgroundService.setToBackground(); // call this on dispose
}

void stop() {
  BackgroundService.stop(); // call this method to stop running service
}

Functions

• setToForeground(): Set the service to the foreground.
• setToBackground(): Set the service to the background.
• stop(): Stop the service.

Example

For a complete example of how to use this package, please refer to the example directory.

License

This package is released under the MIT License.

Contribution

Contributions are Welcome, don't foreget to create a pull request.

Author

Dilip Yadav. Connect with me on Linkedin