Feature Request: Android Homescreen Widgets

[kayserlein]

It would be great to have Widgets to put on your Android Home screen, mainly for creating transactions.

Another great possibility would be to be able to put the individual cards from the Overview main screen onto your home screen.

Thank you for such a great app. It's been a life changer to finally have a good Firefly app.

[dreautall]

I'll have a look how it works with Flutter!

[dreautall]

Having a quick look, Android widgets need to be made with native Android layout stuff - which I unfortunately have no clue about :(

While it is possible to export pictures from Flutter widgets, a real "native" solution would be way better.

[LucentDread]

There is a dart package to help build homescreen widgets for flutter, called home_widget. Maybe it would do the trick, I haven't tested it though.

[dreautall]

Yup that's the one I looked at, but:

HomeWidget does not allow writing Widgets with Flutter itself. It still requires writing the Widgets with native code.

And native Android Widget coding is exactly what I have no clue of 😞 And if I do a Widget, I want to do it "proper", not just generate some image of a Flutter widget and put it on the homescreen (like it is suggested in some articles...). That's why I put on the help wanted tag.

[ArnyminerZ]

If you want a some kind of "declarative" approach, more similar to Flutter, but for Android native, you can use Glance for Jetpack Compose.

I believe it's still in beta, but I've used it when it was in alpha, and worked quite fine.