15 posts tagged with "releases"

🥰 Happy Valentine's Day lovely people! 🥰

We just released Flet 0.20.0 with the focus on:

1. Adaptive UI.
2. Extending Flet apps with 3rd-party Flutter packages.
3. New controls: Video (yay!), AudioRecorder and a bunch of Cupertino-like controls. Flet now includes 97 built-in controls!

sudo apt install libmpv-dev mpv

Adaptive UI​

Adaptive controls allow writing apps with a single code base which look and behave differently depending on the platform they are running on.

To the date Flet provides 11 adaptive controls. To make control adaptive you should set its adaptive property to True.

In Flet 0.20.0 we introduce adaptive property to all container-alike controls. Setting adaptive=True on a container propagates this property to all child adaptive controls.

Page adds design property which enables granular control over controls design language and can have the following values: ft.PageDesign.ADAPTIVE, ft.PageDesign.MATERIAL or ft.PageDesign.CUPERTINO.

By setting just page.design = ft.PageDesign.ADAPTIVE you can make you app looking awesome on both iOS and Android devices:

iPhone

Android

Integrating existing Flutter packages​

Today Flet offers almost 100 controls, but, as you can imagine, not every Flutter library/widget could be added to the core Flet library and Flet team couldn't do that alone in the acceptable timeframe.

At the same time we do not want to put early adopters, who chose Flet to build their next commercial or corporate app, into a situation where their progress depends on Flet team availability and desire to implement a Flutter control they need.

In Flet 0.20.0 we re-factored Flutter core packages and identified the API that can be used by 3rd-party developers to add their own Flet controls written in Dart.

We are currently working on API docs, but you can learn now how custom Flutter packages are implemented by looking at Dart sources for Video, and Audio controls.

In short, you have to create a new Flutter package which implements and exports two methods:

void ensureInitialized();
Widget createControl(CreateControlArgs args);

See ensureInitialized() and createControl() implementations for Video control.

On Python side you create a new class inherited from Control (non-visual or overlay controls) or ConstrainedControl.

See Video class implementation in Python.

To integrate a custom Flutter package while building your Flet app with flet build command you can list extra packages with either --include-packages option or in pubspec.yaml file put into root of your Flet app.

Video control​

Video control is implemented in a separate Flutter package.

To build your Flet app with Video control add --include-packages flet_video to your flet build command, for example:

flet build apk --include-packages flet_video

Flet 0.20.0 is a relatively "large" release and could break some things.

Upgrade to Flet 0.20.0, test your apps and let us know what you think by joining Flet Discord server or creating a new thread on Flet GitHub discussions.

Enjoy!

Dear friends! In the final post of this year I would like to thank you all for your contributions to Flet project whether it's spreading a word, submitting pull request, joining Discord discussion or a even sending an annoying bug report!

With your fantastic support we achieved a lot in year 2023:

• 70+ controls (special thanks to @ndonkoHenri for his tremendous contribution).
• 7,700 stars on GitHub.
• 2,150 users with community moderators (thank you guys!) on Discord.
• Flet integration with Pyodide for pure client-side Python apps - no other frameworks provide a better UI for Pyodide!
• Flet app in AppStore and Google Play - great way to test on mobile devices and real proof of Flet apps being accepted in stores.
• ...and finally... drum roll...🥁🥁🥁 flet build command is here! 🎉🎉🎉

🎄 "New Year" 🎄 edition of Flet 0.18.0 has been just released which allows packaging your Flet apps for distribution on all platforms: iOS, Android, Web, macOS, Windows and Linux!

The one command to rule them all!

The full circle is now closed: you can create (flet create), run (flet run) and build (flet build) your Flet apps with Flet CLI.

Flet CLI provides flet build command that allows packaging Flet app into a standalone executable or install package for distribution.

flet build command supersedes both flet pack (packaging into desktop app) and flet publish (packaging into a static website) commands and allows converting your Flet app into Android or iOS bundle, desktop app and a static website.

For building desktop apps flet build does not longer rely on PyInstaller like flet pack does, but uses Flutter SDK to produce a fast, offline, fully customizable (your own icons, about dialog and metadata) executable for Windows, Linux and macOS with Python runtime embedded into executable and running in-process.

Static websites built with flet build, compared to flet publish, have faster load time as all Python dependencies are now packaged into a single archive instead of being pulled in runtime with micropip. flet build web also detects native Python packages built into Pyodide, such as bcrypt, html5lib, numpy and many others, and installs them from Pyodide package registry.

Check Packaging app for distribution guide for complete information about flet build command.

Let us know what you think by joining Flet Discord server or creating a new thread on Flet GitHub discussions.

We wish you Happy New Year! Enjoy your holidays!

We've just released Flet 0.10.0 with FastAPI support!

FastAPI coupled with Uvicorn, Hypercorn, Gunicorn or other web server replaces built-in Flet web server (Fletd) to reliably run production Flet workloads.

On the other hand, seasoned FastAPI developers can use Flet to easily add interactive, real-time dashboards and admin UI to their existing or new FastAPI services.

A minimal app example​

import flet as ft
import flet_fastapi

async def main(page: ft.Page):
    await page.add_async(
        ft.Text("Hello, Flet!")
    )

app = flet_fastapi.app(main)

It's a simple app that just outputs "Hello, Flet!" on a web page.

To run the app install Flet for FastAPI and Uvicorn:

pip install flet-fastapi
pip install uvicorn

Save the code above to hello.py and then start uvicorn as:

uvicorn hello:app

Open the browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000 to see the app running.

Features and benefits​

• Multiple Flet apps on a single domain - mapped to the root and/or sub-paths.
• Simple one-line mappings or individual endpoint configurations.
• Light-weight async wrapper around FastAPI WebSocket connection for greater concurrency.
• Serves Flet static files with user assets and app meta-information customization.
• Uploads handler for FilePicker control.
• OAuth callback handler for authentication flows.

Check the guide for complete information about Flet with FastAPI.

Let us know what you think by joining Flet Discord server or creating a new thread on Flet GitHub discussions.

🤖 Android support is here!

With Flet Android app you can see how your Flet Python app looks and behaves on Android devices while the app itself is running on your computer.

Similar to iOS, Flet for Android is a Flutter app written entirely in Python with the help of two open-source packages: serious_python and flet. Resulting app package is technically compliant with Google Play requirements, so you can publish awesome Android apps in pure Python.

Follow this guide to get started with testing your Flet apps on Android. Explore the app, browse gallery, play with sample projects and app settings.

FAQ​

How to package my Flet app for Google Play?​

We are going to provide a project template for bootstrap Flutter app and a guide how to combine Flutter, serious_python package and your Python app together to create a standalone Android app and publish it to Google Play.

Check serious_python's readme for instructions on how create a Flutter bootstrap and package your Python app to run within it. Use flet_example project as a starting point.

Will you provide packaging for Windows, macOS and Linux?​

Yes! At the moment Flet desktop apps are packaged with flet pack command and PyInstaller. Produced app bundle adds performance and size overhead and is hard to customize, so we are going to replace it with native Flutter packaging.

Flet v0.9.0 release notes​

For testing on Android you need to upgrade your Flet installation to v0.9.0.

There were a few changes mainly to support Android in Flet CLI. Let us know if you notice something unusual.

Enjoy!

🎉 Whoo-hoo, Flet app is now on App Store! 🎉

With Flet iOS app you can see how your Flet Python app looks and behaves on iPhone or iPad while the app itself is running on your computer.

But it's more than just testing Flet apps on the phone! Flet mobile app itself is written in Python and its publishing to App Store is an important milestone for the entire Flet project. It is a successful proof that you can create awesome mobile apps in Python only and package them so that they are accepted in App Store!

Follow this guide to get started with testing your Flet apps on iPhone or iPad. Explore the app, browse gallery, play with sample projects and app settings.

I would like to thank Kivy project for making a toolchain for iOS which we used to compile Python interpreter and dependencies for iOS devices. We published serious_python package for adding Python runtime to any Flutter app.

FAQ​

When Android is supported?​

Soon. It has #1 priority now and we've already started working on it.

How to package my Flet app for App Store?​

We are going to provide a project template for bootstrap Flutter app and a guide how to combine Flutter, serious_python package and your Python app together to create a standalone iOS app and publish it to App Store.

Later this year we'll create a CI pipeline to fully automate the process.

Check serious_python's readme for instructions on how create a Flutter bootstrap and package your Python app to run within it. Use flet_example project as a starting point.

Flet v0.8.0 release notes​

For testing on iOS you need to upgrade your Flet installation to v0.8.0.

It's been changed a lot in v0.8.0 and there were some breaking changes. Bear with us while you are upgrading to 0.8.0 and let us know if you have any troubles with it.

Enjoy!