shimmer 4.0.0

A lightweight Flutter widget that paints a moving highlight over skeleton placeholders and call-to-action text.

4.0.0

• BREAKING: Use the standalone material_ui package instead of package:flutter/material.dart. Requires Flutter >=3.44.0 and Dart ^3.12.0.
• Keep the animation duration in sync when period changes, and restart cleanly when enabled is toggled back on
• Start infinite loops with AnimationController.repeat() instead of a first forward() cycle
• Treat direction updates as paint work, not layout work
• Expand widget tests for construction, animation, looping, and highlight geometry
• Refresh README, example README, and add docs/ for architecture and optimization notes
• Remove leftover lib/main.dart counter app from the package

3.0.0

• upgrade sdk constraint to support Dart 3

2.0.0

• stable version of nullsafety

2.0.0-nullsafety.0

• mirgrate to nullsafety

1.1.2

• fix bug: missing update ShimmerDirection

1.1.1

• support dynamic Gradient according to the application's Theme

1.1.0

• improved by using ShaderMaskLayer

1.0.1

• support stop and resume animation

1.0.0

• support animation loop control
• the package is stable enough to reach v1.0.0 now

0.0.6

• add code document

0.0.5

• re-config to support Dart2

0.0.4

• update metadata

0.0.3

• add direction property to allow customizing animation direction
• BREAKING: define a new default constructor to allow customizing gradient pattern, the old default construct is renamed to Shimmer.fromColors

0.0.2

• update metadata

0.0.1

• Initial release.