`flutter build aar`
This new build command works just like `flutter build apk` or `flutter build appbundle`, but for plugin and module projects.
This PR also refactors how plugins are included in app or module projects. By building the plugins as AARs, the Android Gradle plugin is able to use Jetifier to translate support libraries into AndroidX libraries for all the plugin's native code. Thus, reducing the error rate when using AndroidX in apps.
This change also allows to build modules as AARs, so developers can take these artifacts and distribute them along with the native host app without the need of the Flutter tool. This is a requirement for add to app.
`flutter build aar` generates POM artifacts (XML files) which contain metadata about the native dependencies used by the plugin. This allows Gradle to resolve dependencies at the app level. The result of this new build command is a single build/outputs/repo, the local repository that contains all the generated AARs and POM files.
In a Flutter app project, this local repo is used by the Flutter Gradle plugin to resolve the plugin dependencies. In add to app case, the developer needs to configure the local repo and the dependency manually in `build.gradle`:
repositories {
maven {
url "<path-to-flutter-module>build/host/outputs/repo"
}
}
dependencies {
implementation("<package-name>:flutter_<build-mode>:1.0@aar") {
transitive = true
}
}
This is the first step in getting esoteric devices wired
up to device lab to ensure that we can at least start Flutter
apps in profile mode on such devices.
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/35838
* Introduce image_list performance benchmark that runs on jit(debug) build.
We want to track performance of debug build because ongoing work on reducing the cost of spanwing new isolate will impact jit(debug) more than it will aot(release) configurations.
* Newlines and spaces
* Add test case for Flutter Issue #27677 as a benchmark.
See https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/27677
I got the following results running the test on a Moto E2 which
will help us determine how much we can gain by analyzing the
operations and eliminating unnecessary repaints based on
dirty rectangles/regions.
no blurs - avg 216.0 fps over 3 samples
blur the group - avg 22.9 fps over 3 samples
blur each txt - avg 3.4 fps over 3 samples
* Added the new benchmark to be tracked on the dashboard.
* Gradle generates ELF shared libraries instead of AOT snapshots.
* `flutter build apk/appbundle` supports multiple `--target-platform` and defaults to `android-arm` and `android-arm64`.
* `flutter build apk` now has a flag called `--split-per-abi`.
* Gradle generates ELF shared libraries instead of AOT snapshots.
* `flutter build apk/appbundle` supports multiple `--target-platform` and defaults to `android-arm` and `android-arm64`.
* `flutter build apk` now has a flag called `--split-per-abi`.
* Added support for authentication codes for the VM service.
Previously, a valid web socket connection would use the following URI:
`ws://127.0.0.1/ws`
Now, by default, the VM service requires a connection to be made with a
URI similar to the following:
`ws://127.0.0.1:8181/Ug_U0QVsqFs=/ws`
where `Ug_U0QVsqFs` is an authentication code generated and shared by
the
service.
This behavior can be disabled with the `--disable-service-auth-codes`
flag.
Previously, I used the Android emulator for testing and everything
seemed to work fine with stdout (if I remember correctly). But our
devicelab uses real Android devices and the warnings are routed to
stderr. Hence change stdout to stderr in the test.
## Description
Print actionable warnings if `flutter drive` (where most of our performance benchmarks come from) is run in debug mode and it tries to gather benchmarks using `traceAction`.
## Related Issues
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/30625
## Tests
I added the following tests:
* drive_perf_debug_warning devicelab test
* add trailing commas on list/map/parameters
* add trailing commas on Invocation with nb of arg>1
* add commas for widget containing widgets
* add trailing commas if instantiation contains trailing comma
* revert bad change
This patch adds a default shader warm up process which moves shader compilation from the animation time to the startup time. This also provides an extension for `runApp` so developers can customize the warm up process.
This should reduce our worst_frame_rasterizer_time_millis from ~100ms to ~20-30ms for both flutter_gallery and complex_layout benchmarks. Besides, this should also have a significant improvement on 90th and 99th percentile time (50%-100% speedup in some cases, but I haven't tested them thoroughly; I'll let our device lab collect the data afterwards).
The tradeoff the is the startup time (time to first frame). Our `flutter run --profile --trace-startup` seems to be a little noisy and I see about 100ms-200ms increase in that measurement for complex_layout and flutter_gallery. Note that this only happens on the first run after install or data wipe. Later the Skia persistent cache will remove the overhead.
This also adds a cubic_bezier benchmark to test the custom shader warm up process.
This should fix https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/813 (either by `defaultShaderWarmUp`, or a `customShaderWarmUp`).
