Flet with Sparkle / auto_updater(Flutter) for automatic updates

[ap4499]

Question

I'm going to build a Flet app, which contains Sparkle (to support end user automatic updates on MacOS).

I am currently trying to establish the most appropriate workflow for it, and looking for any advice from anyone who has done something similar.

1. Currently, I am thinking of using a Flet custom template (https://flet.dev/docs/extend/user-extensions/) which includes the auto updater module (Flutter implementation of Sparke), https://pub.dev/packages/auto_updater.

Has anyone else done something similar? Could it be better to integrate Sparkle within Xcode directly? (using our Runner.xcworkspace file)

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• I have searched for answers to my question both in the issues and in previous discussions.

[ap4499]

Ended up creating a Flet extension using a Flutter extension to get to Sparkle.

See: #5208

Explored doing it in Xcode, but given that Runner.xcworkspace is often overwritten in new builds - decided against it given the complexity of building around that.