platform_serial 0.1.0

Complete Flutter plugin for managing serial ports. Supports Windows, Linux, macOS, Android (OTG), and iOS (OTG) with a unified interface. Provides synchronous and asynchronous communication, support f [...]

📡 platform_serial

🔌 Professional cross-platform serial communication plugin for Flutter with sync/async I/O, streaming, typed errors, and native bridge support.

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✨ Features

• Unified API (SerialManager, SerialPort) across supported platforms
• Binary and text communication (read, readSync, readUntil, write, writeText)
• Real-time streams (dataStream, textStream, errorStream)
• Typed error model (SerialError, SerialErrorType)
• Unit, integration and e2e tests
• Professional Copilot assets in .github/ (instructions, agents, skills, hooks, MCP, collections)

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Platform Support

Platform	Implementation	Status
Windows	FFI (platform_serial.dll)	✅
macOS	FFI (DynamicLibrary.process)	✅
Linux	MethodChannel	✅
Android	MethodChannel	✅
iOS	MethodChannel	✅
Web	Not supported	❌

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Quick Start

import 'package:platform_serial/platform_serial.dart';

final manager = SerialManager();
final ports = await manager.getAvailablePorts();

final port = await manager.openPort('COM3', baudRate: 115200, dataBits: 8);
await port.writeText('AT\r\n');
final response = await port.readUntil('\n');
await manager.closePort('COM3');

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Example Application

This repository includes a full professional example app in example/:

• serial port selection and refresh
• configurable serial parameters (baud rate, data bits, stop bits, parity, flow control, read/write timeout)
• open/close connection lifecycle
• bidirectional serial terminal (read + write)
• themed UI with color-coded terminal events
• splash screen with logo
• about dialog with copyright and licenses
• multilingual UI (EN, FR, PT, ES, IT, DE, NL, RU, EL, TR, AR, HE, ZH, JA, KO)

Run it:

cd example
flutter pub get
flutter run

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Build, Lint and Test

flutter pub get
flutter analyze
flutter test

Example app tests:

cd example
flutter test

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.