nowbar_flutter 0.2.2

A pure-Dart Flutter recreation of the Samsung Now Bar with animated media, notification, routine, sports, and timer surfaces.

Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.2.2

Fixed

• The example app crashed on every Android version below 16 with NoClassDefFoundError: android.app.Notification$ProgressStyle. ProgressStyle, ProgressStyle.Segment and Builder.setShortCriticalText are API 36 only, so they now sit behind a Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 36 guard in MainActivity. On Android 7.0–15 the timer posts a standard ongoing countdown notification instead of a Live Update.

Changed

• The README is reduced to the essentials and now states the version requirements explicitly: the Live Update surfaces (the notification shade's "Live info" section, the lock-screen Now Bar card, and the status-bar chip) require Android 16 (API 36), and requesting promotion requires API 36.1.

0.2.1

Changed

• The pub.dev screenshots now show the timer example instead of the Now Bar deck: the running countdown with its status-bar chip, the lock-screen Now Bar card, and the notification shade's "Live info" section. The images are stored as JPEG to keep the package download small.

0.2.0

Changed

• Lowered the minimum SDK requirements so the package installs on a much wider range of toolchains: Dart SDK ^3.12.0 → ^3.0.0 and Flutter >=3.44.0 → >=3.10.0. The code only relies on Dart 3 language features (records, patterns, class modifiers) and Flutter APIs available since 3.10, so no API changes were needed. flutter_lints was lowered to ^3.0.0 to match.
• README requirements tables (English and Korean) now state the lowered versions, and the stale "not on pub.dev yet" notice was removed.
• The README now leads with the timer app. The "Scope (this is a UI recreation)" section and the Now Bar deck screenshots were removed from it so the repository description is not mistaken for the app the example ships.
• The example app was rewritten from a Now Bar demo into a countdown timer app. It no longer imports the package's widgets or uses the card deck. Instead it drives an Android 16 Live Update (a promoted ongoing notification) over the example's own nowbar/live_timer method channel, so a running timer appears in the notification shade's "Live info" section, as a lock-screen Now Bar card, and as a status-bar chip.
• The example bundles a subset of Noto Sans KR (Regular 400, Bold 700) as the theme's fontFamilyFallback so its Korean labels render on-device and in the golden test, and the example golden image was regenerated.

0.1.0

Added

• NowBarWidget engine: a stacked, draggable Now Bar card deck with axis-locked pan gestures, vertical cycling with wrap-around, swipe-to-dismiss, and NowBarMetrics for corner radius, height, translation clamp, shadow, width fraction, and an animation multiplier.
• NowBarComponent (builder slot plus a dismissible flag), NowBarDragController (dragUp, dragDown, dragVertically, dragHorizontally), and NotificationColorController (solid or gradient fills).
• Five built-in surfaces: MediaPlayerWidget, NotificationWidget, RoutinesWidget, SportsWidget, and TimerWidget.
• Material 3 theme layer: NowBarTheme (light, dark, or a seed color), NowBarColors, NowBarTypography, and a neutral NowBarIcons catalog.
• Bundled Inter typeface (Regular 400, SemiBold 600, Bold 700) with its SIL OFL 1.1 notice.
• Runnable example app demonstrating every surface.
• 116 unit and widget tests plus 10 golden-image tests.
• Android platform support declared in pubspec.yaml.