appWindow.hide() behaviour changes from IDE to compiled EXE

[boganiLuca]

I am developing an app that can run in two different ways, depending on args passed to it. One way has a GUI for configuring the app, the other way is supposed to be run as a Windows service and does its things depending on how it has been configured on the GUI side (this is just to give some context).

So, I basically have a flag set at runtime that depends on the args passed, and the last lines of the main method are this:

void main() {
  runApp(const MyApp());
  doWhenWindowReady(() {  
    if (isService) {  
      appWindow.hide();   
      //sets up the service and stuff...
    } else {   
      //sets the windows properties...
      appWindow.show();
    }  
  });  
}

I continued developing the app without worries, because in Android Studio everything worked fine: when it was supposed to show the GUI, it showed the GUI, and when it was started as a service, there was no thing on the screen ever.

The problem appeared when I started preparing to deploy it: I noticed that the hide() method seemed to be ignored because when I started it as a service, I got a total black GUI with nothing on it (and that was right, since the only widget is an empty container when it's a service). Everything else worked as intended, though.

I narrowed down the variables (used the same PC, changed some lines of code to be sure, etc), and now I am at this point: the app's code is a copy-paste of the example, except for this part:

doWhenWindowReady(() {
    if (true) { 
      appWindow.hide(); 
      return;
    }
    final win = appWindow;
    const initialSize = Size(600, 450);
    win.minSize = initialSize;
    win.size = initialSize;
    win.alignment = Alignment.center;
    win.title = "Custom window with Flutter";
    win.show();
  });

In Android Studio, it works as intended: nothing is shown until I uncomment the hide() and return lines. But, if I build the app with the code shown above and then run it, I still get the example's orange window, but with a size different from 600x450, meaning that the return gets executed but not the hide().
Any hints on why the hide() command is working differently?

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[luohao123]

Same here, does this lib no longer matained?