Setup & Installation
npx skills add https://github.com/flutter/skills --skill flutter-adding-home-screen-widgets
https://github.com/flutter/skills/tree/main/skills/flutter-adding-home-screen-widgets
View on GitHubWhat This Skill Does
Adds home screen widgets to Flutter apps on both Android and iOS. It covers the full workflow from writing shared data in Dart to building native widget UIs with SwiftUI and Kotlin, including advanced techniques like rendering Flutter widgets as images.
The home_widget package bridges Flutter and native widget APIs, so you don't have to figure out the shared storage and update signaling between Dart and platform code on your own.
When to use it
- Showing latest news headlines on the home screen without opening the app
- Displaying real-time stats or counters as a glanceable widget
- Providing quick-action shortcuts to specific app features from the home screen
- Surfacing calendar events or reminders directly on the device home screen
- Rendering custom Flutter charts as widget images for at-a-glance data