assets-for-api-docs

This repo is used to host and serve static assets in support of docs.flutter.io, as well as some manual tests that use specially-crafted graphics.

Assets committed to this repo and pushed to GitHub are immediately available for linking and reference.

URL structure

Reference the assets with this URL structure:

https://flutter.github.io/assets-for-api-docs/assets/<library>/<asset>

For example, an image named app_bar.png about AppBar from the material library would go in the assets/material/ directory and be at https://flutter.github.io/assets-for-api-docs/assets/material/app_bar.png.

All asset files should be under the assets directory in an appropriate subdirectory.

Optimization

Please consider optimization tools for assets.

For PNGs, we recommend optipng, using the following command line:

optipng -zc1-9 -zm1-9 -zs0-3 -f0-5 *.png

Be careful about applying this aggressively. In particular, files in the assets/tests directory should not be optimized.

The automatic generation tool will automatically apply optimization to the assets it generates.

Generation

See the documentation for the generate.dart script in the diagrams directory, in conjunction with the generate.dart script. It will regenerate almost all of existing assets using the Flutter version you have installed. Feel free to add more modules in the diagrams package to generate new assets.

Prerequisites

In order for the generate.dart script to work, it needs several supporting apps.

To optimize PNG files, it needs optipng, which is available for macOS via Homebrew, and Linux via apt-get.

To convert animations into mp4 files, it needs ffmpeg, available for macOS via Homebrew and Linux via apt-get.

The generator currently only supports running on an Android runtime. An Android device or emulator must be running before invoking the generate.dart script.

The Android adb command and the flutter command need to both be available and in a directory in the PATH environment variable. Be sure it is the same one that is running as a server (which is often started by your IDE, so use the same adb the IDE is running).

The generate.dart script only works on macOS and Linux, because of the supporting apps it needs to run.

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