A brick for mason to create a starter Flutter tool for macOS using macos_ui

macosui_tool_starter

A mason brick to create a starter Flutter tool for macOS that uses macos_ui.

What’s Included ✨

Out of the box, this brick creates a Flutter application that:

  • ✅ Targets macOS (support for other platforms can be added manually)
  • ✅ Builds an UI based on the latest version of macos_ui
  • ✅ Prepares a preferences_repository using SharedPreferences
  • ✅ Prepares an AppNotifier providing an minimal AppState using SharedPreferences
  • ✅ Provides a ToolBarPullDownButton in the ToolBar with two menu items
    • Choose Folder which opens a FilePicker
    • Scan Directorywhich calls a method on AppNotifier
  • ✅ Reads the current version from the pubspec.yaml and provides it in the AppState
  • ✅ Has these packages pre-installed
    • macos_ui
    • flutter_hooks
    • hooks_riverpod
    • shared_preferences
    • file_picker
    • pubspec_parse

Output 📦

├── README.md
├── analysis_options.yaml
├── lib
│   ├── main.dart
│   ├── pages
│   │   ├── home_page.dart
│   │   ├── main_view.dart
│   │   └── settings_page.dart
│   └── providers
│       ├── app_notifier.dart
│       ├── preferences_repository.dart
│       ├── providers.dart
│       └── settings_notifier.dart
├── macos
├── pubspec.lock
├── pubspec.yaml
└── test
    └── widget_test.dart

Credits

If you don’t need or want Riverpod, preferences and file_picker, you can also use the brick macosui_starter, which was the starting point for this brick. It has less packages but allows multiple windows and has several options to configure the window style.

GitHub

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