text
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'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts',
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);
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final http.Response response = await http.get(dataURL);
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setState(() {
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data = jsonDecode(response.body);
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});
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}
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Widget getRow(int index) {
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return Padding(
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padding: const EdgeInsets.all(10),
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child: Text('Row ${data[index]['title']}'),
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);
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}
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@override
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Widget build(BuildContext context) {
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return Scaffold(
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appBar: AppBar(title: const Text('Sample App')),
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body: ListView.builder(
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itemCount: data.length,
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itemBuilder: (context, index) {
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return getRow(index);
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},
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),
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);
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}
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}<code_end>
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Refer to the next section for more information
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on doing work in the background,
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and how Flutter differs from Android.<topic_end>
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<topic_start>
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How do you move work to a background thread?
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Since Flutter is single threaded and runs an event loop,
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you don’t have to worry about thread management
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or spawning background threads.
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This is very similar to Xamarin.Forms.
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If you’re doing I/O-bound work, such as disk access or a network call,
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then you can safely use async/await and you’re all set.If, on the other hand, you need to do computationally intensive work
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that keeps the CPU busy,
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you want to move it to an Isolate to avoid blocking the event loop,
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like you would keep any sort of work out of the main thread.
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This is similar to when you move things to a different
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thread via Task.Run() in Xamarin.Forms.For I/O-bound work, declare the function as an async function,
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and await on long-running tasks inside the function:
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<code_start>Future<void> loadData() async {
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final Uri dataURL = Uri.parse(
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'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts',
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);
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final http.Response response = await http.get(dataURL);
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setState(() {
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data = jsonDecode(response.body);
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});
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}<code_end>
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This is how you would typically do network or database calls,
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which are both I/O operations.However, there are times when you might be processing
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a large amount of data and your UI hangs.
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In Flutter, use Isolates to take advantage of multiple CPU cores
|
to do long-running or computationally intensive tasks.Isolates are separate execution threads that
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do not share any memory with the main execution memory heap.
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This is a difference between Task.Run().
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This means you can’t access variables from the main thread,
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or update your UI by calling setState().The following example shows, in a simple isolate,
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how to share data back to the main thread to update the UI.
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<code_start>Future<void> loadData() async {
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final ReceivePort receivePort = ReceivePort();
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await Isolate.spawn(dataLoader, receivePort.sendPort);
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// The 'echo' isolate sends its SendPort as the first message
|
final SendPort sendPort = await receivePort.first as SendPort;
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final List<Map<String, dynamic>> msg = await sendReceive(
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sendPort,
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'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts',
|
);
|
setState(() {
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data = msg;
|
});
|
}
|
// The entry point for the isolate
|
static Future<void> dataLoader(SendPort sendPort) async {
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// Open the ReceivePort for incoming messages.
|
final ReceivePort port = ReceivePort();
|
// Notify any other isolates what port this isolate listens to.
|
sendPort.send(port.sendPort);
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await for (final dynamic msg in port) {
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final String url = msg[0] as String;
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final SendPort replyTo = msg[1] as SendPort;
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final Uri dataURL = Uri.parse(url);
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final http.Response response = await http.get(dataURL);
|
// Lots of JSON to parse
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replyTo.send(jsonDecode(response.body) as List<Map<String, dynamic>>);
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}
|
}
|
Future<List<Map<String, dynamic>>> sendReceive(SendPort port, String msg) {
|
final ReceivePort response = ReceivePort();
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port.send(<dynamic>[msg, response.sendPort]);
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return response.first as Future<List<Map<String, dynamic>>>;
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}<code_end>
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Here, dataLoader() is the Isolate that runs in
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its own separate execution thread.
|
In the isolate, you can perform more CPU intensive
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processing (parsing a big JSON, for example),
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or perform computationally intensive math,
|
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