A layer above every screen, Hive 2.0, and Rive (1.1.0)

This release adds App(builder:), a layer that stays above every screen,
and brings three plugins: dartnative_rive, new, plays Rive animations
and state machines on the platform's own Rive runtimes; dartnative_hive
2.0.0 stores boxes in memory-mapped files and writes many times faster;
and dartnative_hive_generator, new, generates Hive's type adapters. It
also brings layout fixes toward Flutter's behaviour and fixes on Android
and iPhone.

To get it, run dn upgrade. On an older dn, that prints the install
command for your system: run it, then dn upgrade again.

Code push: every framework build is a new build for code push. After
dn upgrade, fixes you send reach only apps released with this build, so
make a new release before sending fixes.

New

• App(builder:). Puts a layer above every screen, as Flutter's
  builder does: what you lay beside child, such as a performance meter
  or a debug badge, stays in place while screens push and pop. Touches that
  miss your widgets reach the screen below, and the layer sees your theme
  and MediaQuery.

Plugins

• dartnative_rive 1.0.0, new. Play Rive animations and state
  machines from a bundled asset, a URL, a file or bytes, drawn by Rive's
  own runtimes on iOS and Android. Set boolean, number and trigger inputs
  by name, listen to the events and state changes the machine reports, and
  taps and drags reach the artboard. Add dartnative_rive: ^1.0.0 to your
  app.
• dartnative_hive 2.0.0. We departed from hive_ce and built our own
  storage backend, which keeps boxes in memory-mapped files (mmap) for
  blazing-fast writes. A put hands the value to the operating system
  before it returns, so nothing is lost if the app crashes or is killed. On hive_ce's
  own benchmark, writes are 13 to 57 times faster than hive_ce in a Flutter
  app on an iPhone 16 Pro, and Android shows similar gains. Raise the
  constraint to ^2.0.0 to take it.
• dartnative_hive_generator 2.0.0, new. Generates the type adapters
  dartnative_hive uses for your own classes and enums. Add it from
  dartpub.dev as a dev dependency and run dn pub run build_runner build;
  an app that generated adapters with hive_ce_generator runs it once
  after upgrading.
• dartnative_share 1.0.2 (Android). Sharing two files with the same
  name, such as two photo.jpg from different folders, sent the last
  one's contents in both attachments: each file was copied under its own
  name into one shared folder, so the second overwrote the first. Each
  file now gets a folder of its own, so both arrive with their own name
  and contents. Thanks to Imgkl (#57).
• dartnative_video_player 1.3.1 (iPhone). Smoother video feeds:
  cached videos now load in the background.
• Run dn pub upgrade in your app to get the share and video player
  versions.
• The camera, lottie, supertonic_tts and video_player pages on dartpub.dev
  show a demo video.

Layout: Flutter parity improvements

• A widget with no size of its own, such as a Rive animation or a
  shrink-wrapped list or grid, fills the room a Stack, Align or
  Center gives it, as in Flutter. This also holds through nested Stacks,
  Padding and ColoredBox.
• A vertical ListView(shrinkWrap: true) takes its items' height.
• A Stack holding an Align inside a Column takes its content's
  height instead of the whole column.
• A fixed-size child bigger than its Center, Align or Stack is
  clamped to the room instead of spilling out.
• iPhone: a widget added to a Row or Column beside a Spacer
  after the first frame, such as a close button that appears once
  something is picked, takes its room from the Spacer instead of being
  pushed past the edge of the screen.

Faster

• iPhone: Image.memory decodes off the main thread, so a screen full
  of in-memory images opens without a stall.

Fixed

• Ticker calls back once per display frame, in step with the
  screen, so motion driven by it is even at 60 and 120 Hz, as it already
  was for AnimationController.
• AppBar (Android): turning the phone gives the bar its height for
  the new orientation. It kept the status bar's height from before the
  turn, so on phones whose status bar is shorter in landscape an empty
  strip stayed above the title. A bar with tabs under it keeps their
  height.
• Push transition (Android): a screen pushed with a slide from the
  side slides in again; it appeared at rest at once, with whatever had not
  loaded yet in view. A view that draws on a surface of its own, such as a
  Rive artboard, can hold the incoming screen until it has a frame
  (DNNavigator.holdReveal), at most half a second, so the screen enters
  complete.
• FastList and FastGrid (Android): cells are laid out one screen
  ahead of the viewport, so a cell that draws into its own surface, such
  as a Rive artboard or a video, is already drawn when it scrolls into
  view instead of appearing white a few frames later.
• DropdownButton (Android): the hint shows inside the box, not on
  its border, and a pick no longer resizes it.
• Assets whose names contain spaces load.

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