compass_view 1.0.2

A customizable and lightweight Flutter package that provides beautiful compass UI components and direction/heading utilities out of the box. Designed for easy integration and scalability, this package [...]

📍 compass_view

A customizable and lightweight Flutter package built on top of flutter_compass, providing beautiful compass UI components and direction/heading utilities out of the box. Designed for easy integration and scalability, this package makes it simple to build compass-based applications with minimal effort.

✨ Features

• 🔄 Real-time compass rotation with smooth animations.
• 🧭 Beautiful customizable compass painter widget.
• 📐 Heading/degree calculation with cardinal directions (N, NE, SW, etc).
• ⚠️ Built-in error handling with customizable errorBuilder.
• 🧱 Modular components for easy integration and reuse.

Images/ Screenshots

📦 Installation

Add the following line to your pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  compass_view: ^0.0.1 # replace with latest version

flutter pub get

🧑‍💻 Usage

🔁 Compass with Live Heading

import 'package:compass_view/compass_view.dart';

CompassHeading(
    textStyle: TextStyle(
        fontSize: 32, 
        fontWeight: FontWeight.bold, 
        color: Colors.black
    ),
),

🎨 Display the Compass Only (No Heading)

import 'package:compass_view/compass_view.dart';

CompassWidget(
  size: 100,
  backgroundColor: Colors.black,
  markerColor: Colors.black,
  textStyle: TextStyle(fontSize: 22, fontWeight: FontWeight.bold, color: Colors.black),
)

⚙️ Permissions

Ensure your app requests sensor permissions on Android and iOS.

Android Add the following to AndroidManifest.xml:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.sensor.compass" android:required="false" />

iOS

<key>NSLocationWhenInUseUsageDescription</key>
<string>This app uses your location to show compass heading.</string>

🙌 Contributing

Pull requests and suggestions are welcome! Please open issues to report bugs or feature requests.