This app is created with Flutter and is designed to demonstrate that Flutter runs seamlessly on Linux and Raspberry Pi platforms. It showcases the capability of Flutter's cross-platform development, particularly on embedded systems. Additionally, we've integrated Rive for our animations to showcase its seamless functionality within Linux applications.

Our "google_home" app was made possible with snapp_cli, a time-saving tool for Flutter developers. Which does everything from (remote) setting up your embedded device, to enabling remote development and debugging from your normal machine!

D-Bus is a widely-used message bus system for inter-process communication on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. It provides a standardized and language-agnostic way for different software components, running on the same machine or even on separate devices, to communicate and exchange data. D-Bus enables applications to interact with system services, other applications, and hardware devices seamlessly.

In our "google_home" app, we've utilized D-Bus to seamlessly retrieve sensor information from a Python application. By establishing communication between our Dart-based app and the Python service using D-Bus, we've enabled a reliable and secure sensor data retrieval, enhancing the functionality and user experience of our application.

You can find the Python exmaple in the following file:

Python Dbus Server

And the Dart Dbus Client implementation in the following repo:

Dart Dbus Client

A tutorial on how to implement those Libraries cna be found here:

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