Island
A Dynamic Island for Windows — a floating, shape‑shifting bar that sits at the top of
your screen and morphs to fit whatever you're doing. Island itself is 100% agnostic:
every feature lives in an extension (a small Vue/TS module). The host only renders
surfaces and routes events.
Built with Tauri 2 (Rust + WebView2), Vue 3, Pinia and Tailwind.
Highlights
- 🏝️ Morphing island — idle pill, launcher, views, modal and floating windows, with
smooth transitions; click‑through everywhere except the interactive island.
- 🧩 Extensions, not a monolith — media, screen capture/recording, an app launcher,
a system monitor, an anime client… all are extensions consuming only
@island/sdk.
- 🔔 Notification center — stacked banners, history, do‑not‑disturb.
- 🔌 Rich SDK — surfaces (
view/drop/window/modal), launcher entries &
search providers, idle indicators, notifications, persistent storage and
encrypted secrets, an inter‑extension bus, plus permission‑gated native
services: capture, system sensors, media (SMTC), clipboard, native HTTP with a
persistent cookie‑jar, app launching, window awareness, keyboard automation, TTS.
- 🔐 Per‑extension permissions — each service is gated by a permission declared in the
extension manifest and verified on every call.
- ⬆️ Auto‑update — signed releases via GitHub; installed apps update on next launch.
Install
Grab the latest Island_*_x64-setup.exe (or the .msi) from the
Releases page and run it. The app keeps
itself up to date automatically.
Develop
pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev # run the app
pnpm build # type-check + build the frontend
Requirements: Node 20+, pnpm, the Rust toolchain, and the Tauri prerequisites for Windows.
Writing an extension
An extension is a standalone Vue/TS mini‑project that only depends on vue and
@island/sdk, builds to dist/index.mjs + dist/style.css, and is packaged as a
.island file. The fastest way to start: in the app, tray → Settings → Extensions →
“Create an extension”.
Developer documentation lives in docs/fr/ (French first, English translation
to come) — see the SDK guide and the
services & permissions reference.
Releasing
Push a tag and CI builds, signs and publishes a release with installers and the
auto‑updater manifest:
git tag v0.6.0 && git push origin v0.6.0
See docs/release-and-updates.md for the full runbook.
