Flutter: Need a way to distribute plugins/services for Flutter

Created on 6 Sep 2016 · 3Comments · Source: flutter/flutter

With the (new) hello_services architecture, "plugins" or services for flutter consist of 3 pieces:

iOS specific HostMessage sender/listener code (obj-c or swift)
Android specific HostMessage sender/listener code (java)
dart HostMessage sender/listener code and x-platform api abstraction.

And of course the necessary code to build/integrate the iOS and Android code into the developer's final application (cocoapods? gradle/maven?).

We don't yet have a full design for this. This bug is just for tracking.

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Just to throw in a "nice to have," don't know if it's desirable, just a bit of feedback from a potential user: At SoundCloud, we use few C++ libs for sharing code between iOS and Android. Might be cool to have native C++ support in addition to the Android / iOS path.

That way, we could integrate Flutter directly with our C++ libs, rather than wrapping them in iOS / Android code, and then wrapping them once more for Flutter.

brianegan on 5 Dec 2016

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That way, we could integrate Flutter directly with our C++ libs, rather than wrapping them in iOS / Android code, and then wrapping them once more for Flutter.

brianegan on 5 Dec 2016

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Thanks for the feedback @brianegan, we are tracking that in https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/7053