A Flutter package for showing a lock screen on app open and app pause.
If the app is launching, the lock screen is shown first and then the rest of the app is instantiated once a successful unlock has occured.
If the user is returning to the app after it has already launched, the lock screen is shown on top of your app and can't be dismissed until another successful unlock.
In your flutter project add the dependency:
dependencies:
...
flutter_app_lock: ^4.2.0+2
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void main() {
runApp(MyApp());
}
class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
...
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return MaterialApp(
...,
builder: (context, child) => AppLock(
builder: (context, arg) => child!,
lockScreenBuilder: (context) => LockScreen(),
),
);
}
}
Simply use your MaterialApp
's builder
property to return an AppLock
widget, passing child
to its own builder
property.
Note: While I mention MaterialApp
throughout this README, this is also compatible with CupertinoApp
and WidgetsApp
widgets.
LockScreen
is your own widget implementing your own login logic which should call the following once a successful login has occured.
AppLock.of(context)!.didUnlock();
This will now make the MaterialApp
's Navigator
or Router
the top most widget.
Because AppLock
is expected to be returned within your MaterialApp
's builder
method, your existing theme
and theme
variants will style the widget returned from lockScreenBuilder
automatically.
MaterialApp(
...,
theme: ThemeData(
...,
),
builder: (context, child) => AppLock(
builder: (context, arg) => child!,
lockScreenBuilder: (context) => LockScreen(),
),
);
It is possible to enable and disable the showing of the widget returned from lockScreenBuilder
on app launch and on-demand.
MaterialApp(
...,
builder: (context, child) => AppLock(
builder: (context, arg) => child!,
lockScreenBuilder: (context) => LockScreen(),
initiallyEnabled: false,
),
);
The above will cause child
(your MaterialApp
's Navigator
or Router
) to be built instantly and the widget returned from lockScreenBuilder
will never be shown. The default for initiallyEnabled
is true
.
You can then enable the showing of the widget returned from lockScreenBuilder
later on by doing:
AppLock.of(context)!.enable();
This will now cause the widget returned from lockScreenBuilder
to be shown on app pauses.
If you wanted to disable the showing of the widget returned from lockScreenBuilder
again you can simply do:
AppLock.of(context)!.disable();
There is also a convenience method:
AppLock.of(context)!.setEnabled(true);
AppLock.of(context)!.setEnabled(false);
In some scenarios, it might be appropriate to unlock a database or create some other objects from the widget returned from lockScreenBuilder
and then expose them to your app further down the tree, so you can better guarantee that services are instantiated or databases are opened/unlocked.
You can do this by passing in an argument to the didUnlock
method on AppLock
:
var database = await openDatabase(...);
AppLock.of(context)!.didUnlock(database);
This object is then available as part of the AppLock
builder method, builder
:
MaterialApp(
...,
builder: (context, child) => AppLock(
builder: (context, arg) => child!, // arg is the `database` object passed in to `didUnlock`
lockScreenBuilder: (context) => LockScreen(),
),
);
It is also available by calling AppLock.of(context)!.launchArg
.
In some scenarios, you might want to manually trigger the lock screen to show.
You can do this by calling:
AppLock.of(context)!.showLockScreen();
If you want to wait until the user has successfully unlocked again, showLockScreen
returns a Future
so you can await
this method call.
await AppLock.of(context)!.showLockScreen();
print('Did unlock!');
It might be useful for apps to not require the lock screen to be shown immediately after entering the background state. You can now specify how long the app is allowed to be in the background before requiring the lock screen to be shown:
MaterialApp(
...,
builder: (context, child) => AppLock(
...,
initialBackgroundLockLatency: const Duration(seconds: 30),
),
);
The above example allows the app to be in the background for up to 30 seconds without requiring the lock screen to be shown.
It's also possible to change this at runtime using the method:
AppLock.of(context)!.setBackgroundLockLatency(const Duration(seconds: 5));
When the app becomes "inactive", for example by launching the device app switcher or device notification center, you can now configure a widget to be shown when this occurs:
MaterialApp(
...,
builder: (context, child) => AppLock(
...,
inactiveBuilder: (context) => InactiveScreen(),
),
);
InactiveScreen
is your own widget implementing your own requirements for a screen shown while the app is inactive.
There are limitations to this as noted on issue #6 on GitHub.
Integration tests have been introduced in the example project and were used to confirm the behaviour hasn't changed since the move to null-safety.
They can be run by running flutter test integration_test/integration_tests.dart
in a terminal.