This framework is only for GUI Flutter apps

[temeddix]

This package only supports developing GUI Flutter apps. This framework does NOT support other types of projects:

• Flutter GUI app: Mainly supported ☀️
• Flutter plugin: Not supported, but this package can be an inspiration
• Dart CLI app: Not sure if it will work because this framework hooks onto Flutter SDK
• Dart package: Not supported, unable to hook onto Dart SDK builds

You cannot use Rinf as a dependency of a Dart package. When you import this package from another Flutter/Dart package, it will end up finding the ./native/hub crate of the root Flutter project, not the Rust crates in your intermediate Dart package.

You CAN, however, copy various files from this repository to create your own Flutter FFI plugin. We recommend taking a look at https://github.com/irondash/hello_rust_ffi_plugin first if you are trying to develop an FFI plugin for Flutter that includes Rust.

Although this framework only supports GUI Flutter apps, we promise to deliver the best development experience as it is mainly focused on this one category.

[rohitsangwan01]

@temeddix can we use this for building plugins, by maybe directly ship the compiled rust binaries in the plugin, and Rinf will use those binaries to communicate with rust instead of looking for native/hub

[temeddix]

Hi @rohitsangwan01 :)

Unfortunately, Rinf is not meant to build plugins with. The way build hook compiles the hub crate is quite complex and cannot be changed. Rinf comes with async tokio runtime which assumes that the project is Flutter app, not a Flutter plugin.

The best solution while using Rinf is to build a pure-Rust crate and use that as a dependency from hub.

For scenario that you've described, Rinf won't be a big help.