I built a Flutter plugin that renders actual Flutter widgets as iOS/Android home screen widgets
I've been annoyed that existing home widget packages make you re-build your UI in native Swift/Kotlin. So I made a plugin that lets you use any Flutter widget as the actual widget UI.
How it works: renders your widget tree to a PNG off-screen using an Overlay + RepaintBoundary, pushes it to the native side (WidgetKit / Glance), and reloads the timeline. Tap actions work too — you define rectangular hotspots with relative coordinates and get callbacks via a Dart stream.
await FlutterHomescreenWidget.update(
widgetName: 'ClockWidget',
size: const Size(329, 155),
content: MyClockUI(),
);
The example above is a glassmorphism clock widget built entirely in Flutter — no Swift UI code for the design at all.
Still early (v0.1.3), Android Glance support is in but less tested than iOS. Would love feedback, especially if anyone runs into font or image loading issues.
pub.dev: https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_homescreen_widget
GitHub: https://github.com/leejia324/flutter_homescreen_widget