live_activity_kit 1.1.0

Build iOS Live Activities and Dynamic Island widgets, plus Android Live Updates / ongoing notifications, from Dart. Component DSL, SwiftUI renderer, ActivityKit, App Groups and APNs push updates — no [...]

Changelog

1.1.0

Added

• Android. LiveActivity.show / update / end post an ongoing notification (API 26+) built from the same Dart layout JSON iOS uses. Lock-screen copy, progress bars and LA.countdown / LA.stopwatch (system Chronometer) are mapped onto RemoteViews. On Android 16+ the plugin requests Live Updates via Notification.ProgressStyle and setRequestPromotedOngoing when the layout has progress. POST_NOTIFICATIONS is requested on first show(). Shared store uses SharedPreferences. APNs / push-to-start remain iOS-only.
• LiveActivitySupport.supportsLiveUpdates so callers can distinguish Dynamic Island from Android Live Updates without parsing systemVersion.

1.0.0

First release verified end-to-end on a device. Fixes four bugs that made 0.1.0 fail on a consumer's first flutter run — anyone on 0.1.0 should upgrade.

Fixed

• Podfile deployment target. Flutter scaffolds platform :ios commented out, so CocoaPods assumed 12.0 and refused to resolve this pod with "requires a higher minimum iOS deployment version". setup now raises the Podfile and the Runner target to 13.0.
• Build cycle. Xcode appends "Embed Foundation Extensions" after Flutter's "Thin Binary" phase; both touch Runner.app, producing "Cycle inside Runner". setup now reorders the embed phase ahead of it.
• Extension failed to install. $(FLUTTER_BUILD_NUMBER) does not resolve for the widget target, so the extension shipped with no CFBundleVersion and iOS rejected it with "Failed to create app extension placeholder". setup now points the target at Flutter/Generated.xcconfig, keeping the extension's version in lockstep with the app.
• Text.DateStyle availability. Used without a guard while the pod deploys to iOS 13, breaking compilation with "'DateStyle' is only available in iOS 14.0 or newer".

Added

• Real Dynamic Island screenshot in the README, produced by the example app.
• Troubleshooting entries for each error above, plus ld: framework 'Flutter' not found (a Flutter SDK problem, fixed by flutter precache --ios --force).

Verified

Dart analysis and 35 unit tests; Swift type-checked at iOS 13.0/14.0/16.1; the generated widget extension builds; the example app builds, installs and runs on an iOS 26 simulator; 5 on-device integration tests exercise real ActivityKit start/update/end, concurrent activities and App Group storage.

0.1.0

Initial release.

• Component DSL (LA.*) with 12 components: text, image, row, column, progress, circularProgress, metric, countdown, spacer, divider, padding, container.
• All eight Live Activity regions, each with its own component tree, plus compact and expanded shorthands and documented fallbacks.
• Compact JSON layout schema with fromJson/toJson on every node and a 4 KiB payload guard that fails in Dart rather than in ActivityKit.
• LiveActivity.show / update (merging) / end / endAll, multiple simultaneous activities, lifecycle and deep-link streams.
• Recursive SwiftUI renderer, ActivityKit manager supporting iOS 16.1+ with 16.2 content API and 17.2 push-to-start where available.
• APNs push token and push-to-start token streams.
• App Group key/value and file store with cross-process change notifications.
• Automatic image prefetching for Flutter assets and network images.
• dart run live_activity_kit:setup — widget extension, entitlements, App Group, Info.plist keys and Xcode target registration.
• Example app with four end-to-end demos; Dart and Swift test suites.