Flutter Expensive Native Embedding Journey

Slide of "Flutter Expensive Native Embedding Journey" at FlutterKaigi 2022.

References

• Flutter
  • Flutter architectural overview
  • Writing platform-specific code
    • Channels and platform threading (iOS, Android)
  • Issue | Unable to call a platform channel method from another isolate
    • past Workaround
    • Flutter-to-Host Messaging Audit
    • Design Doc | FFI Platform Channels
    • Design Doc | Isolate Platform Channels
      • flutter/website | Updated the platform channels documentation for background isolate channels
      • flutter/engine | Started handling messages from background isolates for iOS
      • gaaclarke/background_isolate_channels_sample
    • Issue | A communication channel between an isolate and platform code on an arbitrary thread
  • Support integrating with C/C++ in plugin framework
  • dart:ffi
    • Dart VM FFI Vision
    • Design and implement Dart VM FFI
    • Binding to native macOS code using dart:ffi
    • Binding to native iOS code using dart:ffi
    • Binding to native Android code using dart:ffi
    • dart-lang/sdk | dart:ffi SQLite mini tutorial | Architecture Overview
    • ffigen
• Others
  • Concurrency in Dart
  • Dart asynchronous programming: Isolates and event loops
  • Codemagic | Flutter isolates – everything you need to know
  • What does "costly" mean in terms of software operations?
  • sensuikan1973 | FFI in Flutter/Dart
  • sensuikan1973/pedax | Real world example: desktop app has native logic and background threading with dart:ffi

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References for Presenter

• FlutterKaigi 2022
  • proposal cfp
  • requirements
• dockerize flutter app
  • Codemagic | How to dockerize Flutter apps
    • sbis04/flutter_docker
• Others
  • Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
  • Google Cloud Speech-to-Text