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gabriel-x-duarte/responsive_window

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TLDR

A Flutter package that lets any widget read the app window's size and pick layouts, spacing, or widgets based on breakpoint categories.

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  root((responsive window))
    What it does
      Reads app window size
      Sorts into size categories
      Material Design 3 breakpoints
    Tech stack
      Flutter
      Dart
      pub.dev package
    Use cases
      Responsive layouts
      Adaptive padding and columns
      Switch widgets by screen size
    Audience
      Flutter developers
      Mobile and desktop app builders
    Platforms
      Android and iOS
      Web
      macOS Windows Linux

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Show a different layout depending on whether the app window is compact, medium, or large.

USE CASE 2

Set padding, spacing, or column counts that automatically adjust to window size.

USE CASE 3

Swap between a bottom navigation bar and a side navigation rail based on window width.

USE CASE 4

Detect whether the app window is landscape, portrait, or square shaped.

What is it built with?

DartFlutter

How does it compare?

gabriel-x-duarte/responsive_windowabhishek-kumar09/fluttersampleusingprovideranshikadixit/cheerup
Stars00
LanguageDartDartDart
Last pushed2020-10-29
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity2/52/53/5
Audiencedeveloperdeveloperdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Standard Flutter package install from pub.dev, no external services required.

The README shows a license badge, but no license text is included in the provided content.

In plain English

This is a Flutter package, meaning a reusable code library for apps built with Google's Flutter framework, which is used to build apps for phones, web, and desktop from one codebase. Its job is to let any part of an app easily find out how big the app window currently is, and react to that. Rather than trying to detect what physical device someone is using, this library looks at the actual pixel width and height of the app window and sorts it into one of five size categories: compact, medium, expanded, large, and extra large. These category names and their width cutoffs are based on Google's own Material Design 3 guidelines, so a narrow phone screen or a resized desktop window would both count as compact if they are narrow enough, while a wide tablet or desktop window would land in one of the larger categories. To use it, a developer wraps their app's root widget with a component called ResponsiveWindow, then anywhere else in the app they can read the current window information through a simple call on the build context. From there they get the window's width, height, its size category, and whether it is currently landscape, portrait, or square shaped. There are also convenience checks like isAtLeast and isAtMost to test whether the current category falls within a certain range, which is handy for decisions like showing a sidebar only on wider screens. The package also includes a helper called ResponsiveWindowValue that lets a developer pick different values, such as padding amounts, column counts, or even different whole widgets, depending on which size category the window currently falls into, with sensible fallback behavior if a value is not specified for every category. The library only depends on Flutter's own widgets, not Material Design widgets specifically, and it is explicitly scoped to reading window size only, not to configuring native desktop window behavior. It is published on pub.dev, the standard package registry for Dart and Flutter projects, and supports Android, iOS, Web, macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Wrap my Flutter app's root widget with ResponsiveWindow and show me how to read the window category from a page.
Prompt 2
Use ResponsiveWindowValue to set different padding and column counts for compact, medium, and large window sizes in this widget.
Prompt 3
Show me how isAtLeast and isAtMost work for building a responsive sidebar in Flutter.
Prompt 4
Explain the difference between this package's breakpoints and detecting physical device type.

Frequently asked questions

What is responsive_window?

A Flutter package that lets any widget read the app window's size and pick layouts, spacing, or widgets based on breakpoint categories.

What language is responsive_window written in?

Mainly Dart. The stack also includes Dart, Flutter.

What license does responsive_window use?

The README shows a license badge, but no license text is included in the provided content.

How hard is responsive_window to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is responsive_window for?

Mainly developer.

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