LightUpdater

A Flutter app that helps you downloading and checking files of your project on your user's platforms.

Prerequisites

The app is supported for any dart sdk within version 2.19.4 and 3.0.0.
To install the flutter sdk, please follow the respective instructions for your platform at https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install.

Usage

The uncompiled app can be run using the Flutter SDK, the compiled version will run according the the build command executed (refer to next lines).
For a simple usage you can simple configure the Config class (refer to 'Configuration').

To run the app, navigate to the project root folder and run the following command:

flutter run

To build the app, navigate to the project root folder and run the following command:

flutter build {platform=windows,macos,linux,etc...} --release

Configuration

The Config class contains the variables that can be configured to customize labels.
The kHostUrl variable specifies the URL where the files can be downloaded from.
The kJsonUrl variable specifies the URL where the json file can be downloaded from (based on plaftorm).

class Config {
  static const String kCustomWindowName = "CustomName";
  static const String kCustomWatermark = "CustomWatermark";
  static const String kAppVersion = "1:0:0:01";
  static const String kWindowIcon = "assets/images/icon.ico";
  static const String appFolderName = "LightUpdater";

  static const String kHostUrl = "host-ip/path/to/files/";
  -> code implementation: kHostUrl/{platform}

  static const String kJsonUrl = "host-ip/path/to/json.json";
  -> code implementation: kJsonUrl/{platform}/{platform.json}

  <where platform is either windows, linux, macos, etc...>

  static const int kCloseAfterSecs = 5;

  static const bool kCloseOnceStarted = false;
  static const bool kRestartIfRunning = false;
}

To customize the configuration, edit the values in the Config class to match your tastes.

Disclaimer

The downloading system is base on another project. Check out our LightGenerator project for more information.
Dont want to use it? No worries! You just need to follow the same structure but you must use a json file as your entry point eitherway.

class Entry {
  final String name; // file name
  final int    size; // file size
  final String hash; // file calculated sha265
}

This project will and only support desktop version, for other platforms (mobile), updates are directly handeled by associated stores!
Stay tuned for updates.

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv3 License. See the file for details.