Sep 24, 2025 · 6 min read · Ever experienced your Flutter app freezing when performing a heavy task? That's where Isolates come to the rescue! In Flutter, isolates are like independent workers for your app, each with its own memory and event loop. They allow you to run demandin...
Join discussionMay 20, 2025 · 4 min read · Now, to help you understand this, imagine your Flutter app as a busy restaurant kitchen. The head cook (the UI Thread), needs to ensure that dishes (your animations, taps, and scrolls) are plated and served correctly and timely. But then you ask that...
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Jan 28, 2025 · 4 min read · As we have learned about async/await, futures, and streams in our previous articles, you might remember that futures are things that happen sometime in the future. Let’s revisit this with an example: Imagine you ask your friend to bring water while y...
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Sep 2, 2024 · 4 min read · When building high-performance apps with Flutter, one of the key considerations is how to efficiently manage tasks that may take a significant amount of time, such as network requests, file I/O, or complex computations. To keep the app responsive and...
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Aug 18, 2024 · 3 min read · Use Case: Managing Nutrition in a Game I'm currently developing a game where nutrition plays a vital role. The user has a nutrition level that decreases over time, whether the app is open or not. When the nutrition level drops too low, I want to noti...
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Jul 24, 2024 · 3 min read · In Flutter, an isolate is a separate thread of execution that runs independently from the main thread. Isolates are useful for performing heavy computational tasks without blocking the main thread, which is responsible for maintaining a smooth user i...
Join discussionApr 3, 2024 · 8 min read · Isolates Imagine you have a large garden with several gardeners tending to different areas. Each gardener works independently, planting seeds, watering plants, and pruning bushes. They don't interfere with each other's work and communicate through wr...
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Feb 18, 2024 · 6 min read · What are Isolates? In Flutter Isolates are a way to run computationally intensive tasks in the background. Isolates are independent and do not share memory. They communicate with each other by sending messages. This is a very important concept to u...
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Feb 4, 2024 · 2 min read · Introduction: While Dart isolates offer a powerful mechanism for concurrent programming, it's essential for developers to understand their limitations to make informed decisions when designing and implementing concurrent applications. In this blog po...
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Feb 3, 2024 · 2 min read · Introduction: In the dynamic landscape of Dart concurrency, developers often seek ways to optimize performance by efficiently managing isolates. Enter the concept of Isolate Groups. In this blog post, we'll explore how Isolate Groups can be harnessed...
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