This core package serves as the foundational shared library for the Flutter News App Full Source Code Toolkit. It defines the common language and data structures—including models for news content, user data, and remote configurations—that ensure consistency and accelerate development across the Flutter mobile app, web dashboard, and Dart Frog backend API.
This package provides the critical building blocks for a professional news application ecosystem.
🏗️ Foundational Data Architecture
Defines a complete and consistent schema for all news-related content, including headlines, topics, and sources.
Your Advantage: A unified and robust data schema that simplifies content management and ensures data integrity across all applications.
Includes generic wrappers for API responses, pagination, and querying, ensuring predictable and consistent data exchange between the client and server.
Your Advantage: Accelerate API and client development with a uniform communication structure that simplifies data handling and error management.
Provides a centralized and standardized set of exceptions, enabling consistent and predictable error handling across all layers of the application.
Your Advantage: Streamline debugging and build a more stable application with a clear, actionable error-handling strategy.
👤 User Identity & Personalization
Offers foundational models for user profiles and tiered roles, enabling secure, personalized, and permission-based application access.
Your Advantage: Build a secure and flexible user management system that supports distinct access levels for guests, standard users, and premium members.
Provides data structures for persisting all user-specific configurations, from application settings like theme and language to content preferences like saved articles and followed topics.
Your Advantage: Deliver a deeply personalized user experience by remembering individual choices and content interests across sessions.
🔔 Notification & Alerting System
Enables users to create and save powerful, persistent filters based on topics, sources, and countries—and subscribe to highly relevant push notifications.
Your Advantage: Drive deep user engagement by allowing users to define precisely what content they care about, transforming the app into a personalized intelligence tool.
Includes a stateful InAppNotification model with read/unread status tracking, providing the foundation for a persistent, inbox-style notification center.
Your Advantage: Increase content rediscovery and user retention by giving users a dedicated space to review and interact with past notifications.
⚙️ Remote Configuration System
Provides a comprehensive set of models for remotely configuring all dynamic aspects of the application, from feature flags to monetization strategies.
Your Advantage: Agility in managing application features and behavior without requiring app store updates.
Define granular, role-based limits for features like saved feed filters, and notification subscriptions.
Your Advantage: A flexible and scalable way to create value tiers, encouraging users to upgrade for more powerful personalization capabilities.
🧪 Development & Testing Accelerators
Includes a set of pre-defined, in-memory fixture data for core models, facilitating rapid development and testing.
Your Advantage: Rapid prototyping, reliable testing, and instant setup of development environments, significantly accelerating your workflow.
This core package is an integral part of the Flutter News App Full Source Code Toolkit. For comprehensive details regarding licensing, including trial and commercial options for the entire toolkit, please refer to the main toolkit organization page.