A native desktop GUI for HackMate, the OpenCore Hackintosh EFI builder. This is a third UI on top of the same backend the TUI (src/hackmate.py) and Tkinter GUI (src/hackmate_gui.py) use — it doesn't reimplement any hardware detection, config generation, or kext logic itself.

This app never imports Python. It spawns hackmate-bridge (built from src/bridge.py) as a subprocess and speaks newline-delimited JSON-RPC with it over stdin/stdout — see lib/bridge/bridge_client.dart. Each request gets a response keyed by id; the bridge also pushes unsolicited progress/log notifications keyed by request_id during long-running operations (a build, a recovery download) so the UI can stream status without polling.

bridge_client.dart looks for hackmate-bridge(.exe) bundled next to the Flutter executable first, falling back to other locations for local development — see _startBackend/_startPython in that file if you need to point it at a dev build.

• lib/app.dart, lib/main.dart — app entry point and top-level widget tree
• lib/home_shell.dart, lib/widgets/side_menu.dart — the shell/navigation frame around each screen
• lib/bridge/bridge_client.dart — the JSON-RPC client described above
• lib/screens/ — one screen per HackMate feature: build wizard (build_efi/), config editor (config_editor/), EFI health check, log checker, USB mapping, disk map, recovery download, restore, build history, settings
• lib/widgets/async_screen.dart — shared loading/error-state wrapper used by most screens
• lib/util/folder_picker.dart — native folder picker helper

Feature coverage roughly parallels the Python CLI: build EFI, health check, restore EFI, USB mapping, config editor, log checker, disk map. It was built and tested on Windows; Linux and macOS support exists in the code but hasn't been run on either platform yet, so treat those as unverified. Not currently distributed as a prebuilt executable — build it yourself (see below).

Standard Flutter desktop build:

flutter pub get
flutter build windows   # or: flutter build linux / flutter build macos

You'll also need a hackmate-bridge(.exe) binary (built from src/bridge.py via PyInstaller — see the root .github/workflows/build-exe.yml for the exact build invocation) placed next to the built app for it to actually do anything.

No test suite exists for this Flutter app yet (only the default flutter_lints dev dependency in pubspec.yaml) — see the root project's CONTRIBUTING.md for the Python backend's testing expectations, which this UI ultimately depends on.