Getting Started

Creating a Plugin Project

I personally am using Rider, but the process should be similar in other IDEs. To create a new plugin, create a new “ExtendedPlugin for the Flow Launcher” using the dotnet template (TODO).

Writing Your First Plugin

Open your Main.cs files and see the MyPlugin class that extends the ExtendedPlugin class:

Main.cs

public class MyPlugin : ExtendedPlugin
{
}

That’s it! You’ve created your first plugin. You can compile it now and see it in action in Flow Launcher. Of course, it doesn’t do anything yet, but we’ll get to that in the next section.

Note

Throughout this guide, you’ll see examples of what Flow Launcher would look like with the plugin you’re creating. These are just mockups and might not be 100% accurate to the actual appearance of Flow Launcher. However, they should give you a good idea of what to expect. Here’s an example with the plugin we just created:

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