Desktop (Windows/Linux) support

[marandaneto]

https://posthog.com/questions/flutter-for-windows-support
https://posthoghelp.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/16890

The Flutter SDK depends on the Android and iOS SDK.
Ideally, the SDK would also have a pure Dart client that works on Desktop or we should embed a Native SDK for Desktop such as the Rust SDK.

macOS is supported already.

[marandaneto]

A workaround, for now, would be to create a Flutter bridge and call a Native SDK via FFI, eg, Rust SDK

[CaptainDario]

Is there anything planned in regard to this?
I would like to switch to this plugin but I need desktop support.

[marandaneto]

@CaptainDario unfortunately not yet, but please upvote for gathering interest.

We'd need to write a pure Dart SDK (not depending on the Native SDKs such as Android and iOS for Desktop) or embed a Native SDK for Desktop, such as the Rust SDK.

However, adding macOS support should be easier since the iOS SDK supports a macOS target.

Which targets do you need? Win/Lin/macOS or all of them?

[CaptainDario]

Thank you for the quick response! I upvoted this issue.

I would need support for all platforms. But I also see quite an opportunity in supporting these platforms for this package. Because firebase does not support desktop, and everybody needing desktop support will look somewhere else (just like me)

[marandaneto]

A quick workaround, for now, is to just call the API directly until we provide first-class support for Flutter Desktop.

[CaptainDario]

I totally missed the direct API access, this seems like a good solution.

[CaptainDario]

@marandaneto How can I overwrite the default timestamp?
When I try to set it the events are not registered anymore in the web UI.

This works and the event is registered in the UI

Map response = jsonDecode((await http.post(
    Uri.parse('https://eu.posthog.com/capture/'),
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: jsonEncode({
      "api_key": Env.POSTHOG_API_KEY,
      "event": eventName,
      "properties" : completeProps,
      //"timestamp" : DateTime(2023, 10, 5).toIso8601String(),
    })
  )).body);

this even is not registered.

Map response = jsonDecode((await http.post(
    Uri.parse('https://eu.posthog.com/capture/'),
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: jsonEncode({
      "api_key": Env.POSTHOG_API_KEY,
      "event": eventName,
      "properties" : completeProps,
      "timestamp" : DateTime(2023, 10, 5).toIso8601String(),
    })
  )).body);

However, in both cases, the return value is "{status: 1}".
Do you have an idea how to overwrite it?

Edit: It works I had the time filters set to 24h.

[CaptainDario]

For anybody finding this, the current time can be set with (DateTime.now().toUtc()).toIso8601String().

[marandaneto]

For anybody finding this, the current time can be set with (DateTime.now().toUtc()).toIso8601String().

Yes, the docs mention the ISO8601 format.

[CaptainDario]

Yes, the format is mentioned, but they did not mention (or I did not see) that the time needs to be normalized to UTC. When sending my time zone (UTC+1), the server did not return an error, it sent the same response as with UTC but the data was not visible in the dashboard.

If this is obvious, I am sorry to spam this issue, I thought somebody else may have the same problems.

[marandaneto]

macOS support has landed at least https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-flutter/releases/tag/4.0.0-beta.2

[stephane-archer]

I hope to see a Windows version even if it's a quick and dirty version with helpers that call the API directly.

[kirill-21]

Waiting for windows support