build_pipe 0.4.1

The pipeline to build & publish Flutter apps for different target platforms

The pipeline for building & publishing your Flutter app for different target platforms.

Why this project exists

flutter_build_pipe aims to be a pure-dart tool for building and releasing Flutter applications with minimal setup and first-party support for Flutter's components and occasional shortcomings.

Features

General

• Specify platforms, build commands, and your preferences in pubspec.yaml
• Logs the output of all build & publish commands for future reviews
• Define multiple workflows for different build, environment, etc.
• Hook your own commands before and after the whole run and each platform, with on_success and finally hooks
• Shows the run as a live tree in the terminal, line by line in CI, or as JSON for scripts and agents
• Exits with the code 1 when any step fails, so a CI stops at a failed build

iOS & macOS

• Publishing the iOS app to App Store
• Optional clearing of XCode's derived data for consistent builds

Android

• Publishing the Android app to the Play Store

Web

• Adds the version query parameter to build files post-build to solve the caching problem of Flutter web (e.g. flutter_bootstrap.js?v=0.12.1)

Installation

Add build_pipe to your dev dependencies, and generate a starting config in your pubspec.yaml:

dart pub add --dev build_pipe

# Adds a `default` workflow to the end of pubspec.yaml, with every field of the config.
# The platforms with a folder in your project are set up, and the rest is commented out
dart run build_pipe:init

Usage

Once the configuration is added to your project, flutter_build_pipe offers you two commands:

##### BUILD #####
# To build for all given platforms in the default workflow
dart run build_pipe:build

##### PUBLISH #####
# To publish the built app to the given platforms in the default workflow
dart run build_pipe:publish

Both commands support these flags:

# To build for all given platforms in a named workflow. If omitted, the `default`
# workflow is run
--workflow=your_workflow_name

# To use only one (or more) of the platforms defined in a workflow (comma-separated),
# ignoring the other platforms. It's useful to run the build/publish of a single platform
# that failed in the previous runs. If omitted, all platforms of the workflow is used
--override-target-platforms=android
--override-target-platforms=android,ios,web

# To choose how the run is shown, overriding the `output` field of the workflow
# The values are: auto | interactive | plain | verbose | json
# If omitted, the output field of the config is used. If both the flag and the config
# fields are absent, the default value of `auto` is used
--bp-output=plain

# To see the options of a command
--help

# Example
dart run build_pipe:build --workflow=your_workflow_name --override-target-platforms=android --bp-output=json

Besides the above known flags, any other args given will pass down to the build command of a platform

# The build command will funnel all other args passed (e.g., --dart-define) to the build
# commands on all platforms
# This allows github actions etc to pass environment vars down to the build cmd without editing the yaml file
dart run build_pipe:build --dart-define=ENVIRONMENT=prod

Read the topics below to setup and configure your project. The configuration is quite simple, and you just need to do it once.

Topics

Install & Setup

• Install & Setup

Platform Specific config and explanations

• iOS & macOS
• Web
• Android
• Windows
• Linux

Misc.

• Logging
• Output & JSON
• Run order & hooks

Migration

• Migration from 0.3 to >= 0.4
• Migration from < 0.3.0