desktoasts 0.0.2

A plugin to show native toasts on Windows.

desktoasts

A Dart package to send native 💬 toasts on Windows.

Installation

For Flutter

dependencies:
  ...
  desktoasts: ^0.0.2

For Dart CLI

here

Support

Documentation

Initialize the toasts service.

ToastService? service;

void main() {
  service = new ToastService(
    appName: 'desktoasts',
    companyName: 'alexmercerind',
    productName: 'desktoasts_example',
  );
  runApp(MyApp());
}

Show a toast containing subtitle.

Toast toast = new Toast(
  type: ToastType.text02,
  title: 'Hello World!',
  subtitle: 'This toast contains a subtitle.',
);
service?.show(toast);

Show a toast containing an image.

Toast toast = new Toast(
  type: ToastType.imageAndText02,
  title: 'Hello World!',
  subtitle: 'This toast contains an image.',
  image: new File('C:/Windows/Web/Screen/img100.jpg')
);
service?.show(toast);

Show a toast with actions in it.

Toast toast = new Toast(
  type: ToastType.imageAndText02,
  title: 'Hello World!',
  subtitle: 'This toast contains actions in it.',
  image: new File('C:/Windows/Web/Screen/img100.jpg'),
  actions: [
    'Accept',
    'Decline',
  ]
);
service?.show(toast);

Handling events

service?.stream.listen((event) {
  if (event is ToastDismissed) {
    print('Toast was dismissed.');
  }
  if (event is ToastActivated) {
    print('Toast was clicked.');
  }
  if (event is ToastInteracted) {
    print('${event.action} action in the toast was clicked.');
  }
});

Progress

Done.

• Simple toasts.
• Toasts with image.
• Toasts with actions.
• UTF16 text in toasts.
• Event handling.

Yet to be done.

• Progress bar toasts.
• Large image toasts.
• Linux support.

CLI

Currently only Flutter plugin is published to the pub.dev.

For sending toasts from Dart console apps, you may do as follows for now.

git clone https://github.com/alexmercerind/desktoasts.git
cd desktoasts/cli/example
dart main.dart

Workings

Although, this might seem like a Flutter plugin, but this is internally based on FFI instead.

This section of the repository, contains C++ code that I compile to a shared library (which both Dart package & Flutter plugin pack along with them) for sending toasts.

Currently, features are limited. I definitely plan to improve upon this.

License

MIT License. Contributions welcomed.

Acknowledgements

Current package's functionality is solely based upon WinToast. Thanks to mohabouje.