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The official Flutter client for Refetch, bringing the feed, threads, voting, and notifications to Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux on top of the same Appwrite backend as the web app.

• 🌐 Web app: https://refetch.io
• 🧩 Web project & backend: https://github.com/refetch-io/refetch

• 📰 Curated feed — Top, New, Show, and Mines tabs
• 💬 Threaded comments with replies
• ⬆️ Voting on posts and comments
• ✍️ Share links, with a note that starts the discussion
• 📤 Share any story's discussion to other apps
• 🔐 Email/password accounts
• 🔔 Push notifications — replies and an opt-in weekly digest
• 🌗 The refetch.io look, light and dark

A hybrid client on the same Appwrite project as the web app:

• Reads (feeds, stories, comments) come straight from Appwrite TablesDB, which the public can read, with the same queries refetch.io runs.
• Writes and private data (votes, comments, submissions, your own votes) go through the refetch.io app API, /api/app/*, authenticated with a short-lived Appwrite JWT. It runs the website's own server code, so rate limits, counters and notifications stay in one place. See docs/APP_API.md in the web repo.
• Auth is the Appwrite Dart SDK (email/password sessions).
• Push is Appwrite Push (Appwrite's own provider, no Firebase) on Android and APNs through the push plugin on iOS. See docs/PUSH.md.
• Analytics is Appwrite Analytics, behind AnalyticsService (lib/core/analytics/). Events are anonymous, carry no user id or text the person wrote, and stop when the switch in Account › Privacy is off. The property id is AppConfig.analyticsPropertyId; build with --dart-define=ANALYTICS_PROPERTY_ID= (empty) to compile analytics out.

Built with Flutter, Riverpod, go_router, http, and the appwrite Dart SDK. Brand values and where they came from: docs/BRANDING.md.

flutter pub get
flutter run            # pick a device, or e.g. flutter run -d windows

The feed works out of the box against the Refetch backend. Push notifications are optional and disabled until configured — see backend/ and the topic/provider ids in lib/core/config/app_config.dart.

Release signing is read from android/key.properties (gitignored); see android/key.properties.example.

Launcher icons, the splash and the Play listing art are generated from the logo mark (see docs/BRANDING.md):

python tool/render_brand_assets.py
dart run flutter_launcher_icons
dart run flutter_native_splash:create

Releases are cut by the maintainers from Actions → Android Release / iOS Release; each workflow file documents the secrets it needs.

MIT — consistent with the Refetch project.