`flutter build aar`
This new build command works just like `flutter build apk` or `flutter build appbundle`, but for plugin and module projects.
This PR also refactors how plugins are included in app or module projects. By building the plugins as AARs, the Android Gradle plugin is able to use Jetifier to translate support libraries into AndroidX libraries for all the plugin's native code. Thus, reducing the error rate when using AndroidX in apps.
This change also allows to build modules as AARs, so developers can take these artifacts and distribute them along with the native host app without the need of the Flutter tool. This is a requirement for add to app.
`flutter build aar` generates POM artifacts (XML files) which contain metadata about the native dependencies used by the plugin. This allows Gradle to resolve dependencies at the app level. The result of this new build command is a single build/outputs/repo, the local repository that contains all the generated AARs and POM files.
In a Flutter app project, this local repo is used by the Flutter Gradle plugin to resolve the plugin dependencies. In add to app case, the developer needs to configure the local repo and the dependency manually in `build.gradle`:
repositories {
maven {
url "<path-to-flutter-module>build/host/outputs/repo"
}
}
dependencies {
implementation("<package-name>:flutter_<build-mode>:1.0@aar") {
transitive = true
}
}
`flutter build aar`
This new build command works just like `flutter build apk` or `flutter build appbundle`, but for plugin and module projects.
This PR also refactors how plugins are included in app or module projects. By building the plugins as AARs, the Android Gradle plugin is able to use Jetifier to translate support libraries into AndroidX libraries for all the plugin's native code. Thus, reducing the error rate when using AndroidX in apps.
This change also allows to build modules as AARs, so developers can take these artifacts and distribute them along with the native host app without the need of the Flutter tool. This is a requirement for add to app.
`flutter build aar` generates POM artifacts (XML files) which contain metadata about the native dependencies used by the plugin. This allows Gradle to resolve dependencies at the app level. The result of this new build command is a single build/outputs/repo, the local repository that contains all the generated AARs and POM files.
In a Flutter app project, this local repo is used by the Flutter Gradle plugin to resolve the plugin dependencies. In add to app case, the developer needs to configure the local repo and the dependency manually in `build.gradle`:
repositories {
maven {
url "<path-to-flutter-module>build/host/outputs/repo"
}
}
dependencies {
implementation("<package-name>:flutter_<build-mode>:1.0@aar") {
transitive = true
}
}
* Added support for authentication codes for the VM service.
Previously, a valid web socket connection would use the following URI:
`ws://127.0.0.1/ws`
Now, by default, the VM service requires a connection to be made with a
URI similar to the following:
`ws://127.0.0.1:8181/Ug_U0QVsqFs=/ws`
where `Ug_U0QVsqFs` is an authentication code generated and shared by
the
service.
This behavior can be disabled with the `--disable-service-auth-codes`
flag.
Previously, I used the Android emulator for testing and everything
seemed to work fine with stdout (if I remember correctly). But our
devicelab uses real Android devices and the warnings are routed to
stderr. Hence change stdout to stderr in the test.
* Track number of package dependencies in Flutter
Relands #20774.
* Use evalFlutter instead of startProcess.
That way we don't need `flutter` on the PATH.
All temporary directory start with `flutter_` and have their random component separated from the name by a period, as in `flutter_test_bundle.YFYQMY`.
I've tried to find some of the places where we didn't cleanly delete temporary directories, too. This greatly reduces, though it does not entirely eliminate, the directories we leave behind when running tests, especially `flutter_tools` tests.
While I was at it I standardized on `tempDir` as the variable name for temporary directories, since it was the most common, removing occurrences of `temp` and `tmp`, among others.
Also I factored out some common code that used to catch exceptions that happen on Windows, and made more places use that pattern.
* Revert "Revert "Roll engine to fed2ea458ed49088d33eddabc546ba56d600c717 (includes dart roll) (#19044)" (#19276)"
This reverts commit cf932490b7 as it also
includes fix for type error that broke tests.
* Add type cast for dart2 type checks.
* Move up to latest goldens
* Make inDirectory() type-parameterized.
* Add typecasting to transitions_perf_test.dart and microbenchmarks.
* Add boolean flag initialization in save_catalog_screenshots.dart
* Add type conversion to gallery transition test
* Roll engine to b6df7a637498ca9beda1fa9cd7210e3202ea599f.
Changes since last roll:
```
b6df7a637 Roll dart to 290c576264faa096a0b3206c71b2435309d9f904. (#4771)
a6764dbd5 Add sources for Fuchsia target. (#4763)
2d5900615 [fuchsia] Remove unused header file. (#4769)
9717063b7 Revert "Roll dart to c080951d45e79cd25df98036c4be835b284a269c. (#4767)" (#4768)
9a9814312 Roll dart to c080951d45e79cd25df98036c4be835b284a269c. (#4767)
e74e8b35c [async] Update includes of async headers to new path (#4760)
e2c4b2760 Use Dart 2 camel case constants in the engine Dart libraries (#4766)
9c1e48434 Updates for Fuchsia roll. (#4765)
14c940e27 Switch from fxl::Mutex to std::mutex (#4764)
debf82c0b Roll Garnet (#4759)
5bffdefbb Use weak pointers to the accesibility bridge from objects vended to the UIKit accessibility framework. (#4761)
```
* Change some of the dev/devicelab tests to support testing against local engine.
We can already configure flutter tools to use local engine by setting
FLUTTER_ENGINE environment variable. However when this variable is set
this also requires setting --local-engine to specify which flavor of
engine to use.
This change changes tests in dev/devicelab to pass a sensible default for
--local-engine, e.g. when testing hot reload on Android we pass android_debug
and when testing release AOT build for IOS we pass ios_release.
* Fix analysis issues
* Update utils.dart
* Restructure hot mode test so it runs interactively.
This allows to add a benchmark for hot reload after actual source code change.
* Add curly braces, refactory copyRecursive
* Revert "Revert "fire service protocol events for frames (#11565)" (#11727)"
This reverts commit f25e2f5213.
* move the postEvent() call into a separate method
The main purpose of this PR is to make it so that when you set the
initial route and it's a hierarchical route (e.g. `/a/b/c`), it
implies multiple pushes, one for each step of the route (so in that
case, `/`, `/a`, `/a/b`, and `/a/b/c`, in that order). If any of those
routes don't exist, it falls back to '/'.
As part of doing that, I:
* Changed the default for MaterialApp.initialRoute to honor the
actual initial route.
* Added a MaterialApp.onUnknownRoute for handling bad routes.
* Added a feature to flutter_driver that allows the host test script
and the device test app to communicate.
* Added a test to make sure `flutter drive --route` works.
(Hopefully that will also prove `flutter run --route` works, though
this isn't testing the `flutter` tool's side of that. My main
concern is over whether the engine side works.)
* Fixed `flutter drive` to output the right target file name.
* Changed how the stocks app represents its data, so that we can
show a page for a stock before we know if it exists.
* Made it possible to show a stock page that doesn't exist. It shows
a progress indicator if we're loading the data, or else shows a
message saying it doesn't exist.
* Changed the pathing structure of routes in stocks to work more
sanely.
* Made search in the stocks app actually work (before it only worked
if we happened to accidentally trigger a rebuild). Added a test.
* Replaced some custom code in the stocks app with a BackButton.
* Added a "color" feature to BackButton to support the stocks use case.
* Spaced out the ErrorWidget text a bit more.
* Added `RouteSettings.copyWith`, which I ended up not using.
* Improved the error messages around routing.
While I was in some files I made a few formatting fixes, fixed some
code health issues, and also removed `flaky: true` from some devicelab
tests that have been stable for a while. Also added some documentation
here and there.
