Build Android & IOS App For WordPress Blog with Flutter

Build Android & IOS App For WordPress Blog with Flutter

So i wanted to make a app for our website flutternerd.com well turns out it was easy than i thought

So let’s get started

Step 1: Download & Activate Plugin For wordpress blog

Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/easily-generate-rest-api-url/

Step 2: In the wordpress dashboard

go to settings (hover over it) > (Click on) Generate Rest API Url, scroll to the bottom you will have a api url you can modify it if you want.

Step 3: Create a Flutter Project

If not already install and setup flutter from https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install

i used vs code but you can use android studio as well will work just the same

Step 4: Create functions to fetch posts and post image url

Create a file i named it wp-api.dart then add http package add this function

Future<List> fetchWpPosts() async {
  final response = await http.get(
      "https://flutternerd.com/index.php/wp-json/wp/v2/posts",
      headers: {"Accept": "application/json"});
  var convertDatatoJson = jsonDecode(response.body);
  return convertDatatoJson;
}

Step 5: Create frontend and use this function by importing the file

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:nativewordpress/views/PostPage.dart';
import 'package:nativewordpress/wp-api.dart';

class Home extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _HomeState createState() => _HomeState();
}

class _HomeState extends State<Home> {
  String removeAllHtmlTags(String htmlText) {
    RegExp exp = RegExp(r"<[^>]*>", multiLine: true, caseSensitive: true);

    return htmlText.replaceAll(exp, '');
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        title: Text("FlutterNerd"),
      ),
      body: Container(
        padding: EdgeInsets.only(top: 24),
        child: FutureBuilder(
          future: fetchWpPosts(),
          builder: (context, snapshot) {
            if (snapshot.hasData) {
              return ListView.builder(
                  itemCount: snapshot.data.length,
                  itemBuilder: (BuildContext context, int index) {
                    Map wppost = snapshot.data[index];
                    return PostTile(
                        imageApiUrl: wppost['_links']["wp:featuredmedia"][0]
                            ["href"],
                        excerpt: removeAllHtmlTags(wppost['excerpt']['rendered']
                            .replaceAll("&#8217;", "")),
                        desc: wppost['content']['rendered'],
                        title: wppost['title']['rendered']
                            .replaceAll("#038;", ""));
                  });
            }

            return Center(child: CircularProgressIndicator());
          },
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

class PostTile extends StatefulWidget {
  final String imageApiUrl, title, desc, excerpt;
  PostTile({this.imageApiUrl, this.title, this.desc, this.excerpt});

  @override
  _PostTileState createState() => _PostTileState();
}

class _PostTileState extends State<PostTile> {
  String imageUrl = "";

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return GestureDetector(
      onTap: () {
        if (imageUrl != "") {
          Navigator.push(
              context,
              MaterialPageRoute(
                  builder: (context) => PostPage(
                        title: widget.title,
                        imageUrl: imageUrl,
                        desc: widget.desc,
                      )));
        }
      },
      child: Container(
        padding: EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 16, vertical: 4),
        child: Column(
          crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
          children: [
            FutureBuilder(
                future: fetchWpPostImageUrl(widget.imageApiUrl),
                builder: (context, snapshot) {
                  if (snapshot.hasData) {
                    imageUrl = snapshot.data["guid"]["rendered"];
                    return Image.network(imageUrl);
                  }
                  return Center(child: CircularProgressIndicator());
                }),
            SizedBox(height: 8),
            Text(
              widget.title,
              style: TextStyle(fontSize: 16),
            ),
            SizedBox(height: 5),
            Text(widget.excerpt)
          ],
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Step 6: We will need to create a separate function to get image url of each post

fetchWpPostImageUrl(url) async {
  final response = await http.get(url, headers: {"Accept": "application/json"});
  var convertDatatoJson = jsonDecode(response.body);
  return convertDatatoJson;
}

Step 7: Now let’s create post page

We need to add flutter_html_view package then

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter_html_view/flutter_html_view.dart';

class PostPage extends StatefulWidget {
  final String imageUrl, title, desc;
  PostPage({this.title, this.desc, this.imageUrl});

  @override
  _PostPageState createState() => _PostPageState();
}

class _PostPageState extends State<PostPage> {
  Widget postContent(htmlContent) {
    return HtmlView(
      data: htmlContent, // optional, type String
      onLaunchFail: (url) {
        // optional, type Function
        print("launch $url failed");
      },
      scrollable: false,
    );
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        title: Text(widget.title),
      ),
      body: SingleChildScrollView(
        child: Padding(
          padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(horizontal: 16, vertical: 16),
          child: Column(
            crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
            children: [
              widget.imageUrl != null
                  ? Image.network(widget.imageUrl)
                  : Container(),
              SizedBox(height: 8),
              Text(
                widget.title,
                style: TextStyle(fontSize: 18),
              ),
              SizedBox(height: 6),
              postContent(
                widget.desc,
              )
            ],
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

And that is how we can build android and ios app for your wordpress blog if face any problem feel free to comment it down below

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