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A flutter utility to easily create flavors in your flutter application

Flutter Flavorizr #

A flutter utility to easily create flavors in your flutter application

Pub Dart CI Star on GitHub License: MIT

Getting Started #

Let's start by setting up our environment in order to run Flutter Flavorizr

Prerequisites #

Side note: this tool works better on a new and clean Flutter project. Since some processors reference some existing files and a specific base structure, it could be possible that running Flutter Flavorizr over an existing project could throw errors.

Before running Flutter Flavorizr, you must install the following software:

These prerequisites are needed to manipulate the iOS project and schemes. If you are interested in flavorizing Android only, you can skip this step. Keep in mind that you will have to use a custom instructions set with Android and Flutter processors only, otherwise an error will occur.

Installation #

This package is intended to support development of Dart projects. In general, put it under dev_dependencies, in your pubspec.yaml:

dev_dependencies:
  flutter_flavorizr: ^1.0.4

You can install packages from the command line:

pub get

Create your flavors #

Once all of the prerequisites have been installed and you have added flutter_flavorizr as a dev dependency, you have to edit your pubspec.yaml and define the flavors.

Example #

Add a new key named flavorizr and define two sub-items: app and flavors. Under the flavors array you can define the name of the flavors, in our example apple and banana. For each flavor you have to specify the app name, the applicationId and the bundleId.

flavorizr:
  app:
    android:
      flavorDimensions: "flavor-type"
    ios:

  flavors:
    apple:
      app:
        name: "Apple App"

      android:
        applicationId: "com.example.apple"

      ios:
        bundleId: "com.example.apple"

    banana:
      app:
        name: "Banana App"

      android:
        applicationId: "com.example.banana"
      ios:
        bundleId: "com.example.banana"

Available fields #

flavorizr

key type default required description
app Object true An object describing the general capabilities of an app
flavors Array true An array of items. Each of them describes a flavor configuration
instructions Array false An array of instructions to customize the flavorizr process
assetsUrl String https://github.com/AngeloAvv/flutter_flavorizr/releases/download/v1.0.4/assets.zip false A string containing the URL of the zip assets file. The default points to the current release
ide String false The IDE in which the app is being developed. Currently only vscode or idea
Available instructions
value category description
assets:download Miscellaneous Downloads the assets zip from the network
assets:extract Miscellaneous Extracts the downloaded zip in the project .tmp directory
assets:clean Miscellaneous Removes the assets from the project directory
android:buildGradle Android Adds the flavors to the Android build.gradle file
android:androidManifest Android Changes the reference of the app name in the AndroidManifest.xml
android:dummyAssets Android Generates some default icons for your custom flavors
flutter:flavors Flutter Creates the flutter flavor configuration file
flutter:app Flutter Creates the app.dart entry
flutter:pages Flutter Creates a set of default pages for the app
flutter:targets Flutter Creates a set of targets for each flavor instance
ios:xcconfig iOS Creates a set of xcconfig files for each flavor and build configuration
ios:buildTargets iOS Creates a set of build targets for each flavor and build configuration
ios:schema iOS Creates a set of schemas for each flavor
ios:dummyAssets iOS Generates some default icons for your custom flavors
ios:plist iOS Updates the info.plist file
ios:launchScreen iOS Creates a set of launchscreens for each flavor
ide:config IDE Generates debugging configurations for each flavor of your IDE

android (under app)

key type default required description
flavorDimensions String "flavor-type" false The value of the flavorDimensions in the android build.gradle file

app (under flavorname)

key type default required description
name String true The name of the App

android (under flavorname)

key type default required description
applicationId String true The applicationId of the Android App
generateDummyAssets bool true false True if you want to generate dummy assets (icon set, strings, etc)

ios (under flavorname)

key type default required description
bundleId String true The bundleId of the iOS App
generateDummyAssets bool true false True if you want to generate dummy assets (xcassets, etc)

Usage #

When you finished defining the flavorizr configuration, you can proceed by running the script with:

flutter pub run flutter_flavorizr

You can also run flutter_flavorizr with a custom set of processors by appending the -p (or --processors) param followed by the processor names separated by comma:

flutter pub run flutter_flavorizr -p <processor_1>,<processor_2>

Example

flutter pub run flutter_flavorizr -p assets:download
flutter pub run flutter_flavorizr -p assets:download,assets:extract

Run your flavors #

Once the process has generated the flavors, you can run them by typing

flutter run --flavor <flavorName> -t lib/main-<flavorName>.dart

Example

flutter run --flavor apple -t lib/main-apple.dart
flutter run --flavor banana -t lib/main-banana.dart

Customize your app #

Flutter_flavorizr creates different dart files in the lib folder. In the flavors.dart file we have the F class which contains all of our customizations.

class F {
  static Flavor appFlavor;

  static String get title {
    switch (appFlavor) {
      case Flavor.APPLE:
        return 'Apple App';
      case Flavor.BANANA:
        return 'Banana App';
      default:
        return 'title';
    }
  }

}

The process creates a simple title customization: a switch which checks the current appFlavor (defined in our app starting point) and returns the correct value. Here you can write whatever you want, you can create your custom app color palette, differentiate the URL action of a button, and so on.

If you are wondering how to use these getters, you can find an example under the pages folder: in the my_home_page.dart file, the page shown after the launch of the app, we can see a clear reference on the title getter defined in the F class.

Further developments #

  • Let the user define its custom set of available instructions.
  • Create Firebase processors.
  • Use a groovy parser to better manipulate the build.gradle file

Please feel free to submit new issues if you encounter some problems with it.

License #

Flutter Flavorizr is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.

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