Plugins to help with your app support
Finally, in this chapter, I wanted to make a special mention of plugins that help you support your app once it is in the wild. We saw the Crashlytics plugin earlier, and it cannot be said strongly enough that any live app must have a way to report crashes. On Android, there are so many different devices by so many different manufacturers that it is impossible to test across all of them.
Let's look at some other plugins that will make your life easier.
App version
Although most people have auto-update set on their device's settings, some people choose to manually install updates. If someone has an issue and sends you details, you really want an easy way to see which version of the app they are running.
The package_info_plus
plugin is perfect for this. It will read the information from your pubspec.yaml
file and make it available for you to surface in a widget. Adding this information to your app's settings page is a must...