android - Flutter Insecure http is not allowed by platform

Question

Flutter team recently made this change and now insecure http connections are not allowed. https://flutter.dev/docs/release/breaking-changes/network-policy-ios-android

I would like to know how can I connect my flutter app on mobile to local go server running on my PC.

My server is running on: http://192.168.29.45:4001 but it is not connecting to it.

Answer 1

Generally it is required (and preferable) to use https links rather than http links. However, this can be overridden as shown below.

Android

Open the AndroidManifest.xml file in the android/app/src/main folder. Then set usesCleartextTraffic to true.

<application
    ...
    android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"
    ...   >

See this question for more.

iOS

Open the Info.plist file in the ios/Runner folder. Then add the following key.

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
  <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
      <true/>
</dict>

See this answer for more.

macOS

This is the same as iOS. Open the Info.plist file in the macos/Runner folder. Then add the following key.

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
  <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
      <true/>
</dict>