workmanager 0.0.9

Flutter Workmanager. This plugin allows you to schedule background work on Android and iOS.

0.0.1

• Initial Release:
  • Schedule One off task
  • Schedule Periodic task
    • Fixed delay
  • Initial delay
  • Constraints
    • Support for 1 network type
    • requires battery not low
    • requires charging
    • requires device idle
    • requires storage not low
  • back off policy

0.0.2

• Remove the need to register a custom Application on Android side. (Everything still works in testing)

0.0.3

• Add Dart documentation

0.0.4

• Provide a better description so package scores higher on Pub

0.0.5

• The description was too big so you lose points for that too...

0.0.6

• Expose a WorkManagerHelper to the native.
  • This makes it easier if you also have some native code that wants to schedule the Echo Worker

0.0.6+1

• Fixes a bug when initializing without setting the isInDebugMode.

0.0.6+2

• Fixes a bug in which you could not use other plugins inside a EchoCallbackFunction.

  • Fixes #6

  • Fixes #4

  • [‼️ BREAKING change] A user should extend a custom Application and register it in its AndroidManifest.xml

    class App : FlutterApplication(), PluginRegistry.PluginRegistrantCallback {
        override fun onCreate() {
            super.onCreate()
            WorkmanagerPlugin.setPluginRegistrantCallback(this)
        }
        
        override fun registerWith(reg: PluginRegistry?) {
            GeneratedPluginRegistrant.registerWith(reg)
        }
    }
    

    <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
        package="be.tramckrijte.workmanager_example">
        
        <!-- io.flutter.app.FlutterApplication is an android.app.Application that
             calls FlutterMain.startInitialization(this); in its onCreate method.
             In most cases you can leave this as-is, but you if you want to provide
             additional functionality it is fine to subclass or reimplement
             FlutterApplication and put your custom class here. -->
        <application
            android:name=".App" <!-- Replace io.flutter.app.FlutterApplication with .App -->
            android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
            android:label="workmanager_example"
            tools:replace="android:name">
            <activity
                android:name=".MainActivity"
                android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|keyboard|screenSize|locale|layoutDirection|fontScale|screenLayout|density|uiMode"
                android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
                android:launchMode="singleTop"
                android:theme="@style/LaunchTheme"
                android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize">
                <!-- This keeps the window background of the activity showing
                     until Flutter renders its first frame. It can be removed if
                     there is no splash screen (such as the default splash screen
                     defined in @style/LaunchTheme). -->
                <meta-data
                    android:name="io.flutter.app.android.SplashScreenUntilFirstFrame"
                    android:value="true" />
                <intent-filter>
                    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                    <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
                </intent-filter>
            </activity>
        </application>
    </manifest>
    

0.0.7

• This version is the first version to support iOS with the help of the Background Fetch API.
  • Only recurring tasks can be scheduled by iOS.
  • If you want to respond to iOS background triggers you should add the extra case Workmanager.iOSBackgroundTask to your switch case.
• [‼️ BREAKING change]
  • Workmanager.defaultCallbackDispatcher becomes Workmanager.executeTask

0.0.8

• A bugfix were parsing of the ExistingWorkPolicy and BackoffPolicy went rogue. Addresses #9

0.0.9

• A bugfix were parsing the BackOffPolicy was still wrong.