is_tv_ffi 0.7.1

Detects whether a Flutter app is running on a TV: Android TV, tvOS, webOS, Tizen and TV-mode Linux and Windows, using FFI and JNI rather than platform channels.

0.7.1

Changes

• Android: migrated to built-in Kotlin. The plugin no longer applies the Kotlin Gradle Plugin; Flutter supplies Kotlin itself. Apps using this plugin no longer get the warning that "Future versions of Flutter will fail to build if your app uses plugins that apply KGP"
• Updated the minimum supported SDK version to Flutter 3.44 / Dart 3.12
• Dropped the unused kotlin-test dependency, which relied on the Kotlin Gradle Plugin to supply its version
• CI: bumped the GitHub Actions off Node 20, which is deprecated on GitHub runners — checkout to v7, setup-java to v5, setup-android to v4 and setup-gradle to v5
• Linux/Windows: bumped the googletest used by the native unit tests from 1.11.0 to 1.15.2. 1.11.0 declares cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.12), and CMake 4 removed compatibility with anything below 3.5, so configuring the example failed on runners that ship CMake 4. This affects the plugin's own test build only — the googletest dependency is behind include_is_tv_ffi_tests, which is set by the example app and not by consuming apps

Note for contributors: because Flutter now supplies Kotlin, android/ is no longer buildable on its own. Run the Android unit tests through the example app instead:

cd example/android && ./gradlew :is_tv_ffi:test

0.7.0

Fixes

• Android: fixed isTv throwing UseAfterReleaseError on every read after the first. The application Context was cached and then released by use, so the second and later reads operated on a deleted JNI reference. Each read now acquires and releases its own reference
• iOS/macOS: a missing or stripped is_tv symbol is now reported when the library is resolved instead of surfacing as a bare ArgumentError on the first call, and the original stack trace is preserved
• Web: shield and aft are no longer matched as bare substrings. A Shield Tablet is no longer reported as a TV, and user agents that merely contain "aft" (for example "Craft") no longer match. Fire TV model codes are matched as whole words instead
• Linux/Windows: FLUTTER_IS_TV is now matched case-insensitively and also accepts yes and on, so FLUTTER_IS_TV=TRUE works as documented
• iOS/macOS: the PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy manifests are now actually bundled — resource_bundles had been left commented out, so they shipped with neither platform

Changes

• Breaking: iOS and macOS moved to Swift Package Manager and no longer ship a podspec. Flutter warned that the plugin did not support SPM and that this "will become an error in a future version of Flutter". The Swift sources now live in <platform>/is_tv_ffi/Sources/is_tv_ffi/ alongside a Package.swift. Apps must be on Flutter 3.44 or newer with Swift Package Manager enabled — it is on by default there. Apps that have disabled SPM, globally or via enable-swift-package-manager: false in their pubspec.yaml, must re-enable it
• Upgraded dependencies: jni to ^1.0.0, mocktail to ^1.0.5, flutter_lints to ^6.0.0, jnigen to ^0.16.0, and ffigen to ^20.1.1
• Added jni_flutter ^1.0.1 dependency; the Android application-context API moved there in jni 1.0.0
• Moved mocktail to dev_dependencies (it was incorrectly declared as a runtime dependency)
• Windows: removed the unreliable USERNAME == "SYSTEM" heuristic; TV detection on Windows now relies solely on the FLUTTER_IS_TV environment variable
• Web: detect Samsung/LG smart-TV platform globals (tizen, webOS, webOSSystem) in addition to the user agent, and broadened the TV user-agent keyword list (HbbTV, Bravia, VIDAA, Roku, Net TV, CE-HTML, Opera TV)
• Android: UiModeManager is now resolved with a safe cast, and detection falls back to the FEATURE_LEANBACK system feature for TV boxes that report a non-television UI mode
• Linux: Steam Big Picture detection now also recognises SteamOS sessions, gamescope sessions and the SteamDeck variable
• IsTvFfi now has a const constructor
• Raised the plugin's Android build toolchain to Gradle 8.14, Android Gradle Plugin 8.11.1, and Kotlin 2.2.20; building for Android now requires Gradle 8.13 or newer
• Raised compileSdk to 36, moved the dependencies block out of android { }, replaced the deprecated kotlinOptions with kotlin { compilerOptions }, and dropped the deprecated package attribute from the library manifest
• Raised the Apple deployment targets to iOS 13.0 and macOS 10.15
• The example app no longer uses CocoaPods at all: its Podfiles are deleted and the Pods references are removed from both Xcode projects
• Breaking: Raised minimum Flutter to >=3.44.0, for Swift Package Manager (previously >=3.35.6, required by jni 1.0.0)

Internal

• Collapsed the four identical iOS/macOS/Linux/Windows FFI wrappers and their generated bindings into a single IsTvNative implementation and one ffigen.yaml; the platform lookup is now a switch instead of a mutable global factory map
• Web: replaced the test-only userAgent parameter on isTv() — which changed production behaviour and silently required a pre-lowercased string — with a pure matchesTvUserAgent matcher
• Platform implementations now resolve their native dependencies lazily, so constructing one never touches JNI or FFI
• CI now also runs the Kotlin unit tests, the Linux and Windows gtest suites, the example widget tests, a formatting check, an analyzer pass over the example, and a publish dry-run
• Added a .pubignore so generator configs and the Gradle wrapper are not published
• Rewrote the example app: it no longer wraps a synchronous getter in an async method with an unreachable PlatformException handler

0.6.0

Changes

• Added Windows support

0.5.0

Changes

• Added Linux support

0.4.0

Changes

• Added Web support

0.3.0

Changes

• Added MacOS support

0.2.0

Changes

• Added IOS support

0.1.1

Changes

• Removed unnecessary platform declarations in pubspec.yaml

0.1.0

Features

• Added Android support for TV detection