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:
Dive in to 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 app.
We expect you to use DevTools in conjunction with your existing IDE or command-line based development workflow.
See the
VS Code
,
Android Studio/IntelliJ
, or
command line
pages for instructions on how to launch DevTools.
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.
- To detect which code impacts concrete late frames, start at
Performance > Timeline
.
- 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!
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
.