Benchmarking impact of Flutter Plugins on startup latency
TLDR Registering many plugins during Flutter engine initialization or app startup can negatively impact app startup latency. Having tens of plugins should not cause an alarming effect on startup latency, but it’s always a good idea to keep the number in check and benchmark to be certain. Find all the code here. Context Recently, one of my colleagues asked in a Google internal forum about the impact of plugins on startup latency – specifically, whether using a single, common plugin for multiple utility functions is more beneficial than having individual plugins for each function in terms of memory usage and startup latency. I couldn’t find much information regarding this in the official Flutter documentation, and one of the answers on the forum suggested benchmarking this to be certain. I decided to do some benchmarking myself to see the impact. ...