Async vs Isolates | Decoding Flutter

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Hope no longer…That was helpful 👏

Filip how can we find out if some methods we use in our app would benefit from isolates. Is there a way to profile our app and get hints to convert async's to isolates? This would make a great video or article. Please respond.

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do i need to use isolate for downloading pdf files between 1-50 megabytes ?

A better and more relevant example of an isolate would be if you handed your phone off to a friend to check those messages for you, while you spoke to me, and your friend then just summarized what the deal on the phone was.

Please make a video on 'const' key word.

Super explanation, Filip =) Thanks.

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Thanks so much. Instead of showing us code, you have used real life examples and analogies. You'd make great teacher.

Great explanation 🙏🙏

I do not understand wording here. When I search Google, most say Dart code runs on single thread-core, maybe sometimes GC uses another core. Here it's said that if I spawn an isolate I create another thread use another processor(?). This means physical core? Can I make use of all cores of an 8 core processor with this way? I am a hobbyist so sometimes I can not get my head around these things. Can someone explain or suggest a good resource?

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Haven't thought that anybody thought that Async and Isolates are related? Just came here to figure out if i missed somthing.

Great explanation! It’s short and clear. On the other hand I can’t wait to watch a similar video on the actual approach how to work with isolates in flutter 😄

Awesome video the phone analogy is brilliant. I am now looking for more of your great content!

What happens to isolates, that are spawned when the app is closed?

Best explanation so far. Thanks

Is this Flutter or Dart?

Is this Flutter or Dart?

I have to make multiple network calls in flutter and none of them will bring some data back to me, they are just for sending some data continuously somewhere and don't require async/await, they are also not a priority task even if they fail or comes error I don't care.

I need to know if I don't use async await before a network call, how does it work in the flutter event loop does it wait and reduce UI performance

Should I run them in separate Isolate threads or the event loop will process these events without dropping performance,

So does this mean that every async process are done on a different thread but the execution of the main program (the UI rendering, handling the click events etc) all are taken by a single thread call stack.



So basically the dart execution is single threaded but async processes are non blocking because that happens in a different thread and event loops takes care of the results/callbacks that we get from the future(when the thread returns the value) which again is executed in the main thread.



So in a way, spawning a new isolate is like creating our own async process if I'm not wrong(i.e. a new thread is spawned and program is executed in parallel and it returns a future like the compute(), then in the main thread we can just use await to asynchronously wait and perform the needful operations).

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
AWAITing for you reply.
Thank you.

thank you

well explained!

thanks,i know compute method know!

Definitely will be on the MUST READ video for my flutter team... ABSOLUTELY A MUST

Wow. You are best in explanation. I only get it now.

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The term "Async simply makes a note to return to the blocking code... a *callback*.. for when the code is ready" is such an important note to make here. I think this is the first time I've TRULY understood what is meant by async/await. Before I could give you the definition but that truly made it click in my head. Amazing work Filip :)

Please tell about onPressed vs onTap.

So the dart is multi-threaded with the use of isolates?

hi guys. im try create my Isolate to do heavy task. I wanna when i press on Button my Isolates start. But when i do that it throw me an error. I put my Isolates on initState of StatefulWidget work well. Help me and thanks you

Thank You!

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Great explanation !!! Love it. ♥️

Hey Filip! Thanks. I was curious why isolates don't work with UI actions? I tried to use an external library to render a PDF in an isolate, and it said "UI functions can only be run on the main thread." Why is this the case?

I expected you are duplicated for describing parallelism. But not happen :( Thank you for greate video 👍

thanks a lot man that was so helpful to me

Async: Wait for IO. Network, File reading and writing
Isolate: Wait for CPU computation, In another thread.

just great forme. i like thoses short videos on flutter and Dart Concept

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This could be the best explanation of the topic Isolates!! It was really hard to understand through Documentation! Thanks Filip!!

awesome, thank you.

I like the async demonstration haha

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I thought the video would answer my question of when to use which.

The file parsing is better handled with a separate isolate, but just for fun you could probably also use async by splitting the computation into small enough chunks and throwing in an await between each chunk (for example with Future.delayed(Duration.zero)).

Thanks

i idid the example 2 i just swaped 13 12 lol