feat: run on desktop by RomanKovtyukh · Pull Request #678 · mateusz-bak/openreads

RomanKovtyukh · 2025-05-26T18:10:27Z

It includes sqlite configuration for windows, but only tested on Linux. Got an example from here so decided not to remove the Platform.isWindows from there.

Before this change openreads was showing the following errors at the startup if you try running it on desktop:

flutter: [🌎 Easy Localization] [DEBUG] Start
[ERROR:flutter/runtime/dart_vm_initializer.cc(40)] Unhandled Exception: Bad state: databaseFactory not initialized
databaseFactory is only initialized when using sqflite. When using `sqflite_common_ffi`
You must call `databaseFactory = databaseFactoryFfi;` before using global openDatabase API

#0      databaseFactory.<anonymous closure> (package:sqflite_common/src/sqflite_database_factory.dart:29:7)
#1      databaseFactory (package:sqflite_common/src/sqflite_database_factory.dart:33:6)
#2      openDatabase (package:sqflite_common/sqflite.dart:83:10)
#3      DatabaseProvider.createDatabase (package:openreads/database/database_provider.dart:29:18)
<asynchronous suspension>
#4      DatabaseController.getAllBooks (package:openreads/database/database_controler.dart:30:16)
<asynchronous suspension>
#5      BookCubit._migrateCoversFromDatabaseToStorage (package:openreads/logic/cubit/book_cubit.dart:274:27)
<asynchronous suspension>
#6      BookCubit._initLoad (package:openreads/logic/cubit/book_cubit.dart:71:7)
<asynchronous suspension>

flutter: [🌎 Easy Localization] [DEBUG] Init state

#584

RomanKovtyukh · 2025-05-26T23:39:15Z

Checked the failures:

will fix the code style in a separate PR
the intl version was failing locally too until I built it with flutter 3.29.0. So we either need to migrate to both flutter 3.23 and newer intl version if we want to fix this or we need to fix the flutter version to 3.29.0 in CI.

RomanKovtyukh · 2025-06-08T16:53:06Z

Hi @mateusz-bak, could you please help reviewing this and couple more PRs? Or maybe there is someone else with write permissions who could help?

mateusz-bak · 2025-07-20T17:25:00Z

Change already made, please rebase

mateusz-bak · 2025-07-20T17:29:26Z

  file_picker: ^8.3.1
  smooth_page_indicator: ^1.1.0
-  intl: ^0.19.0
+  intl: ^0.20.0


Change already made, please rebase

mateusz-bak · 2025-07-20T17:29:34Z

Change already made, please rebase

mateusz-bak

Hi! Thanks for the work, looks like a good improvement.

However I don't see linux or windows directories that I suppose were created after running below command:

flutter create --platforms=linux,windows .

Also please rebase to fix conflicts on already done changes.

amoinier · 2025-08-16T09:01:30Z

Hi! I would like give some help to merge this PR. Could you give me an update on the current status of the PR and any blockers you’re facing? Thanks in advance :)

RomanKovtyukh · 2025-09-07T12:04:59Z

Hi, I've rebased the changes on top of the current HEAD and added the linux platform directory.

Regarding windows platform directory and build, I didn't add it because I haven't tested it there and won't be able to.

One more thing that is missing yet is an automatic build configuration for linux. We won't be able to distribute the linux version without that.

armand-leguillou · 2025-10-04T09:46:21Z

Hi! Has it evolved since last month?? (I can't wait to get OpenReads on my desktop bc i don't have a smartphone anymore)

RomanKovtyukh · 2025-11-16T03:18:43Z

Hi @mateusz-bak, could you please review? The linux build had been added to the test_build.yaml and the linux directory is also in git now.

I've also made the github workflow store debug build artifacts to allow reviewers run a new version without having to build it locally.

RomanKovtyukh · 2025-11-27T09:18:55Z

BTW folks. While we're waiting for review you can try it out using the build artifacts: https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads/actions/runs/19399497883

To use it:

Download linux-appbundle.zip
unzip it somewhere on your linux machine
execute: /path/to/openreads

I did fix everything platform-specific I could fine, but I might've missed something. So let me know if it's crashing or silently ignoring you.

CC: @armand-leguillou, @amoinier, @ironhak, @GLLM

mateusz-bak · 2025-11-28T21:39:21Z

Great work @RomanKovtyukh I'm starting the review, I'll try to finish it by tomorrow.

mbeko · 2026-02-10T14:55:55Z

Now that I think more about it, a great way to solve this would be to grey out the elements that aren't implemented yet, and show the reason in a tooltip when hovering over them. But I understand if that's too much work for now.

mateusz-bak · 2026-02-13T14:29:33Z

Agree! Greyed out buttons would be best! We can implement them after we merge this PR.

RomanKovtyukh · 2026-02-13T23:52:22Z

Hi folks. Wanted to clarify what we want to do. I'd keep everything as is to keep it a bit less spread in code. I've created a feature request for the currently hidden bar code scanning feature: #878 and ready to add other features.

RomanKovtyukh · 2026-02-14T01:13:30Z

I've checked the Greying out thing. While looking how to do that I found that some people recommend changing opacity of the elements rather than greying out. And changing opacity doesn't look harder than making elements invisible.

Here how it looks when it's 50% opaque:

I can quickly do that to both elements to which we added notifications and ones we hided. As for message on hover, I can check that too and if I don't find an easy way to do that I'd stay with the error messages on click.

mbeko · 2026-02-14T09:54:31Z

Thanks, your suggestions sound great to me! 💪 Happy to hear that it's easy to do, and even if tooltips on hover aren't easy, messages on click are a reasonable fallback 😊

RomanKovtyukh · 2026-02-14T20:15:05Z

Ok, made inactive buttons transparent and with same info bar showing a warning message (translated). It's quite ugly in code, but hopefully will be fixed quickly after merging this PR because most of the things are about working with CSVs which I expect to be fixed all together.

mateusz-bak · 2026-02-14T20:44:07Z

-    "show_title_over_cover": "Show title over cover"
-}
+    "show_title_over_cover": "Show title over cover",
+    "unsupported_platform_blur_hash_error": "Unsupported platform for generating BlurHash",


Please combine all unsuported... strings to one:

This action is not supported on current platform

This will make life easier for the translator especially that we are going to support the features soon.

mateusz-bak · 2026-02-14T20:49:49Z

+      Constants.blurHashX,
+      Constants.blurHashY,
+    );
+  } else {


I don't think we need to have the else statement. When we have new platforms we will review the platform specific implementations so no point in keeping the exception placeholders..

mateusz-bak

Great work, I added small comments. Please fix and also rebase

It includes sql configuration for windows, but it's testted only on Linux. Got an example from here: https://github.com/alextekartik/flutter_app_example/blob/96cba15d72e82ad739323f489b261014e3854484/demo_sqflite/lib/main.dart#L15-L21

Make unzipping the archive synchronous to avoid reading files from backup before they got extracted. In the backup v5 the `info.txt` file is getting extracted first to avoid extracting the whole archive before it's confirmed to be a valid backup.

RomanKovtyukh · 2026-02-16T00:17:52Z

Addressed the last comments, @mateusz-bak.

RomanKovtyukh · 2026-02-23T21:55:01Z

I'm checking the CSV export and not sure if I understand right what this is doing on iOS:

        await SharePlus.instance.share(ShareParams(
          files: [XFile(path)],
        ));

and how should I work it around on Linux (SharePlus doesn't implement fire share on Linux).

Seem like it's opening sharing menu after saving CSV file, but I can't check it.

Do we need to do that on Android too? Or it's done on iOS because it's not straightforward there where the file was saved and users in most cases would have to choose another path?

Other than that it's working ok on Linux, so I event can add to this PR or open another one right after this.

RomanKovtyukh · 2026-02-24T23:40:04Z

A commit in fork with basic CSV export. One issue is that it's not asking where to store the result backup.

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Does anyone knows if something similar to this app has a Linux Desktop alternative? #584

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feat: add linux platform to .metadata

2b62a12

update flutter lints to 5.0.0

cbfd0ae

feat: set up sqlite on linux and windows

bdc31f5

It includes sql configuration for windows, but it's testted only on Linux. Got an example from here: https://github.com/alextekartik/flutter_app_example/blob/96cba15d72e82ad739323f489b261014e3854484/demo_sqflite/lib/main.dart#L15-L21

Use blurhash_ffi to hash images on desktops

88a060f

Use showModalBottomSheet on all non-IOS systems

9271ac6

Use iOS implementation for import on desktops

fd87d1f

Make AlertDialog cross-platform to support Linux

a305992

ref: rename button builders to mean what they do

a719923

Make reading tracker sreen work on linux

8c3aa35

Mark some functions as unimplemented on desktop platforms

27579e6

Don't show 'rate' links on desktops

2b59922

Add linux platform dir

1b1d441

Add linux entry to test_build

0e67902

Fix camera icon for linux target

f4378aa

Use XDG_DATA_HOME as default on Linux platform

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