v0.8.0 - Federated Plugin Architecture

🎉 Major Release - Federated Plugin Architecture

This release represents a major architectural change to the flutter_workmanager plugin, migrating to a federated plugin structure for better platform extensibility and maintainability.

🚨 Breaking Changes

Architecture Changes

• Migrated to federated plugin architecture - Platform-specific implementations are now in separate packages:
  • workmanager_platform_interface - Shared platform interface
  • workmanager_android - Android WorkManager implementation
  • workmanager_apple - iOS BGTaskScheduler implementation (renamed from workmanager_ios)
  • workmanager - Main package with unified API

API Changes

• Enum values changed from snake_case to camelCase for Dart conventions:
  • NetworkType: not_required → notRequired, not_roaming → notRoaming
  • OutOfQuotaPolicy: run_as_non_expedited_work_request → runAsNonExpeditedWorkRequest, drop_work_request → dropWorkRequest
• Removed JSON serialization for inputData - Now uses native Map transfer for better performance and type safety
• Android: Stricter payload type validation - only primitive types and lists of strings supported

✨ New Features

• Android: Added isScheduledByUniqueName method to check if a periodic task is scheduled
• Foundation for future macOS support using NSBackgroundActivityScheduler
• Added comprehensive integration tests for data transfer and retry functionality

🐛 Bug Fixes

• iOS: Fixed initialDelaySeconds parameter handling - was previously ignored
• iOS: Fixed swapped constraints bug for requiresNetworkConnectivity and requiresExternalPower (#562)
• iOS: Fixed compilation errors with Map handling
• Android: Fixed NullPointerException when isInDebugMode was not properly initialized
• Android: Fixed v2 embedding import in BackgroundWorker (#595)
• Android: Fixed array/list handling in payload processing
• Fixed input data type handling across platforms - now properly supports all primitive types and lists

📈 Improvements

• Updated to Flutter 3.32 and flutter_lints 6.0.0
• Android: Updated target SDK to 35
• iOS: Added Privacy Manifest for App Store compliance (#555)
• iOS: Replaced print statements with proper os_log for better logging
• iOS: printScheduledTasks now returns String instead of void (#585)
• Improved CI/CD with Android emulator caching for faster builds
• Better error handling and type safety throughout the codebase

🙏 Contributors

Special thanks to @thegriffen, @jogapps, @navaronbracke, @yarith28, and all contributors who helped make this release possible!

📦 Published Packages

• workmanager 0.8.0
• workmanager_platform_interface 0.8.0
• workmanager_android 0.8.0
• workmanager_apple 0.8.0