amendgit/nanoshell

Nanoshell (Experimental embedder for Flutter)

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Features

• Leverages existing desktop embedders on each platform
• Unlike regular desktop embedders, nanoshell provides consistent platform agnostic API
• Multi-window support
• Window management
  • Adjusting window styles and geometry
  • Modal dialogs
  • Windows can be set to track content size and resize automatically when content changes
• Platform menus (popup menu at this point, menubar coming)
• Drag and Drop
• Written in Rust, Flutter build integrated with cargo

Status

• This is project in a very experimental stage, MacOS and Windows backends have feature parity, work on Linux backend has not started yet. nanoshell/src/shell/platform/null would be the place to start when porting to new platform.

Getting started

In theory, it should be as easy as

git clone https://github.com/iocave/nanoshell.git
cd nanoshell/nanoshell_demo
cargo run

Reality is a fair bit more complicated, as nanoshell requires latest Flutter master, on Windows with some pull requests applied that haven't been merged yet.

Also nanoshell_demo/build.rs has local engine name hardcoded right now.

There is not a whole lot of documentation at this point, example app within nanoshell_demo is probably the best place to start.