File Transfer Client in Flutter

ApolloZhu commented 2 years ago

Note for Reviewer

boardless_outside/lib/main.dart is the main file handling the UI, the rest are just skeleton files to get it running on each specific platform.

Changelog

Setup flutter project for file transfer client
Added ability to upload any files, including text files
Copy button for plain text
Update GitHub Actions to automatically build and deploy the web version

Demo

https://uwrealitylab.github.io/xrcapstone22wi-team8/outside

Testing

Tested on Web, Android, iOS, and macOS

Known Issues

See https://github.com/UWRealityLab/xrcapstone22wi-team8/issues/10

File Management Architecture

See https://github.com/UWRealityLab/xrcapstone22wi-team8/wiki/File-Management-Architecture

Why Flutter, not C# and Unity?

Flutter is cross-platform, just like C# and Unity. It can run on mobile, desktop, and web!
Both has good support for Firebase, so we can still access files from the main Boardless Unity project
Unity's UI Toolkit is incomplete, and doesn't have a file picker!!! On the other hand, Flutter does
- I learned Flutter in a fraction of the time it takes to figure out how to implement a file picker in Unity

ApolloZhu commented 2 years ago

Should the demo page be blank?

@KH-Kyle the page does take a long time to load, but shouldn't be blank after about 5 to 10 seconds (an unfortunate thing with Flutter). Could you please double-check to confirm?

KH-Kyle commented 2 years ago

Should the demo page be blank?

@KH-Kyle the page does take a long time to load, but shouldn't be blank after about 5 to 10 seconds (an unfortunate thing with Flutter). Could you please double-check to confirm?

It showed up! I used Safari at first which took really long but it's 5-10 sec for Chrome.

ApolloZhu commented 2 years ago

Sounds good, merging

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