Released: July 31, 2025

Added #

• ✨ Enhanced Customization: Introduced ShimmerAiConfig for granular control over shimmer appearance.
• baseColor, highlightColor: Control shimmer colors.
• duration: Adjust animation speed.
• direction: Set shimmer animation direction (LTR, RTL, TTB, BTT).
• angle: Define the angle of the shimmer effect.
• borderRadius: Customize border radius of rectangular placeholders.
• repeat: Control continuous looping.
• loopCount: Specify the number of animation loops.
• customGradient: Provide a custom LinearGradient for unique effects.
• 🧪 New Test Cases: Added comprehensive widget tests for all new customization parameters to ensure functionality and prevent regressions, now testing the internal shimmer implementation.

Changed #

• ♻️ Refactored API: withShimmerAi() extension now accepts ShimmerAiConfig or individual parameters for flexibility.
• ⚙️ Improved Placeholder Logic: Enhanced ShimmerAiWrapper and ShimmerPlaceholders to utilize ShimmerAiConfig for dynamic rendering.
• 📏 Smarter Sizing: Refined size_utils.dart to provide more accurate estimations for placeholder dimensions based on original widgets (e.g., Text, Container, SizedBox).
• 📚 Updated Example: example/lib/main.dart now showcases all new customization options with various scenarios.

Fixed #

• 🐛 Ensured all parameters propagate correctly from withShimmerAi to the underlying custom shimmer widget.
• 🐛 Improved handling of different widget types within ShimmerAiWrapper for more consistent placeholder generation.

Released: July 25, 2025

Changed #

• 🔧 Bug Fixed.

Released: July 25, 2025

Changed #

• 🔧 Refactored package structure to modularize extensions, widgets, placeholders, and utilities.
• ♻️ Improved performance and widget rebuilding logic.
• 🧹 Cleaned codebase for null safety, code style, and pub.dev scoring improvements.

Released: July 22, 2025

🎉 Initial release of shimmer_ai: