live_activities

• 🐛 Improve initialization logic.

• 🐛 Fix example app which was not working anymore.
• ✨ Bump minimal Flutter SDK version to 3.41.0.

• 🐛 Fix UIScene iOS adoption.
• ✨ Introduce optional activityTag parameter to activity methods and update Android notification ID generation to consistently use activityId (thanks to @Dansp 👍).

• 🐛 Implement createOrUpdateActivity for Android.

• 🐛 Fix removeWhenAppIsKilled in release mode.

• ✨ Implement Android notification request by the plugin
• ✨ Add an option to disable iOS remote push update.

Eg.

createActivity(
  ...
  iOSEnableRemoteUpdates: false, // default is true
);
createOrUpdateActivity(
  ...
  iOSEnableRemoteUpdates: false, // default is true
);

• 🐛 Disable iOS push notification request as not needed for live activities.

• 🏗️ Migrating to UISceneDelegate (Flutter 3.38.x iOS breaking change).
• 🏗️ Default SDK environment is now 3.10.0 and Flutter SDK >= 3.38.0.
• 🏗️ Fix compile error Android example project (thanks to @trunghieuvn 👍).
• ✨🐛 (Android) Store notification IDs on app termination and return string IDs to Dart (thanks to @felixibel 👍).
• ✨ Add support for getActivityState() to detect activity by custom activity id (thanks to @reynirf 👍).
• ✨ Add option to control iOS notification permission request (thanks to @asmz 👍).

• ✨ New method areActivitiesSupported() ➡️ Check if live activities are supported on the current platform/OS version. (thanks to @MortadhaFadhlaoui 👍).
• 🏗️ Method areActivitiesEnabled() ➡️ Now only checks user settings without platform version validation. (thanks to @MortadhaFadhlaoui 👍).

• 🐛 Check for customId in endActivitiesWithId (thanks to @dkobia 👍).
• 🐛 Bugfix avoid remove all notifications (thanks to @EArminjon 👍).

• ✨ Add support for Android Live Activities (thanks to @EArminjon 👍).
• 🐛 Custom ID activities fail to end correctly (thanks to @charleyzhu 👍).
• 📝 Update README.md for local and remote Live activities.

ℹ️ BREAKING CHANGES ℹ️

• On both platforms, activityID is now a required parameter for createActivity and createOrUpdateActivity().
• Bump iOS minimum version to 13.

• ✨ Ability to get the "pushToStartToken" (thanks to @Clon1998 👍).
• ⬆️ Upgrade dependencies.

• 🐛 LiveActivityFileFromMemory can't share image with AppGroup (thanks to @EArminjon 👍).
• 📝 Added minor version check when not being able to see the Live Activity (thanks to @dasanten 👍).
• ⬆️ Upgrade dependencies.

• 🏗️ Move to Swift Package Manager.
• 🏗️ Regenerate example app.
• ⬆️ Upgrade dependencies.

• ✨ Added a new method createOrUpdateActivity(), you can use it to create or update by passing an activity ID (thanks to @Clon1998 👍).
• ⬆️ Upgrade dependencies.

• ✨ You can now send generic files instead of just pictures.

To send a file you can do the following on the Dart code:

LiveActivityFileFromAsset('assets/files/rules.txt')

And in your Swift code:

let ruleFile = sharedDefault.string(forKey: context.attributes.prefixedKey("yourFileKey"))!
let rule = (try? String(contentsOfFile: ruleFile, encoding: .utf8)) ?? ""

Check the example for a full demo.

BREAKING CHANGES

You must replace your images to:

• LiveActivityFileFromAsset.image()
• LiveActivityFileFromMemory.image()
• LiveActivityFileFromUrl.image()

In order to use resizeFactor you must do the following now:

LiveActivityFileFromAsset.image(
  'assets/images/chelsea.png',
  imageOptions: LiveActivityImageFileOptions(
    resizeFactor: 0.2
  )
),

• 🐛 Example works again with scheme.

• 🐛 Fix channel message sent from native to Flutter on a non-platform thread (thanks to @aswanath 👍)
• 🗑️ Clean some code.

• ✨ Use new custom iOS App Group Directory dependency (this will fix namespace for Android gradle builds).
• ✨ Removed deprecated flutter_native_image dependency and replaced by image (thanks to @SnapDrive 👍)
• ⬆️ Upgrade dependencies.

• 🐛 Fix areActivitiesEnabled() on unsupported devices.

• 🍱 Convert images to webp.
• ⬆️ Upgrade dependencies.

• 🐛 Force returning false for areActivitiesEnabled() when no iOS devices.

• ✨ Simplified fetching of ActivityState of all created live activities (thanks to @Clon1998 👍).
• 🐛 Fixes background thread invocation of event streams (thanks to @ggirotto 👍).
• 🐛 Replaced getImageProperties with dart buffer and descriptor (thanks to @anumb 👍).
• 🐛 Fix tests.
• ⬆️ Upgrade dependencies.

• ✨ Add update with alert config (thanks @charlesRmajor 👍).
• ✨ Add an option to use preloaded images (thanks @Niklas-Sommer 👍).
• ✨ Add Android support - currently only used to check if live activities is supported (thanks @ggirotto 👍).
• ✨ Example app support Material 3.
• 🐛 Fix tests.
• 📝 Update README.md.
• ⬆️ Upgrade dependencies.

• ✨ BREAKING CHANGE: Add the ability to handle multiple live notification (thanks @Clon1998 👍).

Please follow this tutorial to add implement it:

• Add the following Swift extension at the end of your extension code:

extension LiveActivitiesAppAttributes {
  func prefixedKey(_ key: String) -> String {
    return "\(id)_\(key)"
  }
}

• For each keys on your native Swift code, please changes the following lines:

let myVariableFromFlutter = sharedDefault.string(forKey: "myVariableFromFlutter") // repleace this by ...
let myVariableFromFlutter = sharedDefault.string(forKey: context.attributes.prefixedKey("myVariableFromFlutter")) // <-- this

• 🐛 Fix stall state for unknown activityId (thanks @Clon1998 👍).
• 🐛 Now return null value when activity is not found in getActivityState().

• ✨ Add url scheme optional argument.
• ✨ Add sinks unregister on engine end (thanks @ggirotto 👍).
• 🐛 Fix example images size.
• ⬆️ Upgrade dependencies.

• 🚨 Lint some code.
• 🐛 Fix deprecated tests.
• ⬆️ Upgrade dependencies.

• 🐛 Method areActivitiesEnabled() are now callable on iOS < 16.1
• ✨ Creating an activity can now use stale-date (thanks @arnar-steinthors 👍).

• ✨ ActivityUpdate subclasses are now public along with a new MapOrNull method (thanks @arnar-steinthors 👍).

• ✨ Add missing "stale" activity status.
• 🐛 When value set to null in map, value is removed from live activity.

• 🐛 Fix missing activityUpdateStream implementation channel on native part.

• ✨🐛 Change method getPushToken() to be synchronous.
• ⬆️ Upgrade dependencies.

• ✨ Add a way to track push token and the activity status (thanks @arnar-steinthors 👍).
• ♻️ Format code.

• ✨ Add method to get push token (thanks to @jolamar 👍).
• ♻️ Rework Swift code.

• ✨ End live activity when the app is terminated (thanks to @JulianBissekkou 👍).

• 🐛 Fix a bug where init never completes (thanks to @JulianBissekkou 👍).

• ✨ Can now pass assets between Flutter & Native.
• 📝 Update README.md.

• 📝 Update README.md.

• ✨ Now using App Groups to pass typed data across Flutter & Native !
• 🗑️ Remove unused code in example.
• 📝 Improve README.md.

• ✨ Add method to get the activity state (active, ended or dismissed).

• ✨ Add stream to handle url scheme from live activities &/or dynamic island.
• 📝 Improve README.md
• ♻️ Rework example

• ✨ Add method to check if live activities are enabled.
• ✨ Add method to get all activities ids created.
• ✨ Add method to cancel all activities.
• 🐛 Fix add result to all methods.

• 🎉 Initial release.