How I Doubled My Flutter App’s Performance Using These Techniques — Part 1

Raghav Joshi

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Want to double your Flutter app’s performance without breaking a sweat? Here’s how I did it — no magic wand required!

When I first embarked on my Flutter journey in 2020 during lockdown, I was mesmerized by how effortlessly I could create beautiful, cross-platform apps. But, as my apps grew more complex, I started noticing something alarming — my app’s performance was slowly tanking. And if you’ve ever seen your app lag or crash at the most inconvenient times, you know how frustrating it can be.

During these 4 four years of my Flutter journey, building lots of personal and client projects, I have learned that Flutter is by default a performant framework. The main performance issues occur from our end, and these issues are not even hard to incorporate into our projects. In fact, these performance issues occur if we neglect small yet important concepts of Flutter.

In this article, by increasing the performance, I mean increasing the speed of the app and not optimizing the memory performance.

I have tried to cover all sorts of ways to improve the…