local_session_timeout

• With local_session_timeout you can redirect user to authentication page, if the application hasn't received any user interaction, or been running in the background for "x" duration.
• Works locally, does not require internet connection.
• Useful for apps with confidential information. If the user leaves the app running, or pushes it to the background to use later and forgets to close it.
• Works on android, ios, web and desktop.

Getting started

import 'package:local_session_timeout/local_session_timeout.dart';

Create SessionConfig object

An object responsible for specifying durations for different types of timeouts.

It exposes a stream which can be listened for timeout events

final sessionConfig = SessionConfig(
    invalidateSessionForAppLostFocus: const Duration(seconds: 15),
    invalidateSessionForUserInactivity: const Duration(seconds: 30));

// If you don't have access to Navigator via context, you can access it like this
final navigatorKey = GlobalKey<NavigatorState>();
NavigatorState get _navigator => navigatorKey.currentState!;

sessionConfig.stream.listen((SessionTimeoutState timeoutEvent) {
    if (timeout == SessionTimeoutState.userInactivityTimeout) {
        // handle user  inactive timeout
        _navigator.pushNamed("/auth");
    } else if (imeout == SessionTimeoutState.appFocusTimeout) {
        // handle user  app lost focus timeout
        _navigator.pushNamed("/auth");
    }
});

Parameters

• invalidateSessionForAppLostFocus (Duration? duration): appFocusTimeout event will be emitted through the stream, if the app loses focus and running in background for specified duration. If duration passed is null, app will not emit timeout events for losing focus / pushed into background.

• invalidateSessionForUserInactivity (Duration? duration): userInactivityTimeout event will be emitted through the stream, if the app doesn't recieve any user activity for specified duration. If duration passed is null, app will not emit timeout events for user inactivity.

Create SessionTimeoutManager object

StreamController<SessionState> sessionStateStream:
SessionTimeoutManager(
    sessionConfig: sessionConfig,
    sessionStateStream: sessionStream,
    userActivityDebounceDuration: const Duration(seconds: 10),
    child: MaterialApp(
    title: 'Flutter Demo',
    theme: ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
    ),
    home: const MyHomePage(title: 'Flutter Demo Home Page'),
    )
);

Parameters

• sessionConfig (SessionConfig sessionConfig): sessionConfig object that was created previously.

• child (Widget widget): child widget in widget tree.

• userActivityDebounceDuration (Duration duration) (optional): Since creating a timer object for each user interaction can be CPU intensive, a new timer will be started only in the intervals of userActivityDebounceDuration duration, has default value of 10 seconds.

• sessionStateStream<SessionState> (StreamController<SessionState>) (optional):

  • If the argument is not passed, session timeout manager will always be listening.
  • If the argument is passed, developer can selectively disable the session timeout manager and re-enable it.

  Sometimes you may want to disable the session timeout manager and re-enable it, consider the following scenarios:

  • User might be in a page reading someting which doesn't contribute to any user inactivity, so you may want to disable the session timeout manager when user is in this page.
  • Typing (both soft keyboard and hardware keyboard) isn't recorded by session timeout manager as user activity, because it is not possible to listen to keyboard events from outside the TextField widget in Flutter, so you may want to disable listener when soft keyboard is open.
  • You may want to disable session timeout manager in auth page, as it doesn't makes much sense to redirect to auth page from auth page.
  • To disable session timeout manager, pass SessionState.stopListening to this stream, and to re-enable session timeout manager, pass SessionState.startListening to this stream. (Developer is responsible for handling and disposing of streamController passed). If you don't pass this argument, session timeout manager will always be listening.

  All of the above usecases are covered in example app

Note: Make sure to keep SessionTimeoutManager as top level widget of your widget tree, so that it records user activity in all screens

Sample Usage (refer example app for complete usage)

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyApp({super.key});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    final sessionConfig = SessionConfig(
        invalidateSessionForAppLostFocus: const Duration(seconds: 15),
        invalidateSessionForUserInactivity: const Duration(seconds: 30));

    sessionConfig.stream.listen((SessionTimeoutState timeoutEvent) {
    if (timeoutEvent == SessionTimeoutState.userInactivityTimeout) {
        // handle user  inactive timeout
        // Navigator.of(context).pushNamed("/auth");
    } else if (timeoutEvent == SessionTimeoutState.appFocusTimeout) {
        // handle user  app lost focus timeout
        // Navigator.of(context).pushNamed("/auth");
    }
});

    return SessionTimeoutManager(
      sessionConfig: sessionConfig,
      child: MaterialApp(
        title: 'Flutter Demo',
        theme: ThemeData(
          primarySwatch: Colors.blue,
        ),
        home: const MyHomePage(title: 'Flutter Demo Home Page'),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Support

All OS's will support userInactivityTimeout, but appLostFocusTImeout is supported only on mobile devices (Android and IOS) as Flutter doesn't support widget lifecycle methods on desktop and Web.

Additional information

This package can be used for both online and offline applications. Even if the application has session / token based auth with webserver, invalidating the session may require require communication with web server, which is not possibe if the user turns off internet connection and pushes the app to the background.