Securing Secrets in Flutter
- Introduction to securing secrets in Flutter and the importance of not adding sensitive information to source code repositories.
- Demonstration of using CodeMagic, a popular CI/CD tool for Flutter, to inject secrets into the code base during the build process.
- Walkthrough example involving creating a file to store environmental variables, injecting the variables into the app using the dotenv package, and displaying them on the home screen.
- Creating a JSON file with secret data and encoding it to base64.
- Linking CodeMagic with a GitHub repository and transitioning to YAML configuration.
- Adding the secret variables to CodeMagic using the CM_MAILGUN_API_KEY and CM_MAILGUN_DOMAIN environment variables.
- Creating a new file with different values for the variables and encoding it.
- Decoding the environment variable before executing the build.
- Showing the full configuration file for building the Android APK.
- Building the APK on CodeMagic.
- Conclusion and encouragement to like and follow for more content.