Flutter and Dart DevTools

DevTools is a suite of performance and debugging tools for Dart and Flutter. Flutter DevTools and Dart DevTools refer to the same set of tools.

For a video introduction to DevTools, check out the following deep dive and use-case walkthrough:

Watch on YouTube in a new tab: "Dive in to Flutter and Dart DevTools"

Here are some of the things you can do with DevTools:

• Inspect the UI layout and state of a Flutter app.
• Diagnose UI jank performance issues in a Flutter app.
• CPU profiling for a Flutter or Dart app.
• Network profiling for a Flutter app.
• Source-level debugging of a Flutter or Dart app.
• Debug memory issues in a Flutter or Dart command-line app.
• View general log and diagnostics information about a running Flutter or Dart command-line app.
• Analyze code and app size.
• Validate deep links in your Android or iOS app.

We expect you to use DevTools in conjunction with your existing IDE or command-line based development workflow.

You can launch DevTools with the following tools:

• VS Code
• Android Studio/IntelliJ
• command line

Question: My app looks janky or stutters. How do I fix it?

Answer: Performance issues can cause UI frames to be janky and/or slow down some operations.

1. To detect which code impacts concrete late frames, start at Performance > Timeline.
2. To learn which code takes the most CPU time in the background, use the CPU profiler.

For more information, check out the Performance page.

Question: I see a lot of garbage collection (GC) events occurring. Is this a problem?

Answer: Frequent GC events might display on the DevTools > Memory > Memory chart. In most cases, it's not a problem.

If your app has frequent background activity with some idle time, Flutter might use that opportunity to collect the created objects without performance impact.

Please give DevTools a try, provide feedback, and file issues in the DevTools issue tracker. Thanks!

DevTools is distributed as part of the Flutter SDK. To get access to the latest DevTools functionality, run flutter upgrade to get the most up-to-date version of Flutter. To access DevTools features before they hit the Flutter stable channel, consider switching to the beta or main channels.

For more information on debugging and profiling Flutter apps, see the Debugging page and, in particular, its list of other resources.

For more information on using DevTools with Dart command-line apps, see the DevTools documentation on dart.dev.