isolate_channel
🇺🇸 iodesignteam.com · v0.6.1
Communication channels for isolates based on Flutter's platform channels
A head-to-head of two Background Tasks packages on pub.dev, by daily downloads, GitHub activity, and maintenance.
isolate_channel leads on usage with about 2.9x the daily downloads of isolated_object (25,818 vs 9,016 per day). isolated_object has the larger GitHub following (3,252 vs 7 stars).
🇺🇸 iodesignteam.com · v0.6.1
Communication channels for isolates based on Flutter's platform channels
🇸🇪 serverpod.dev · v0.1.0
Wraps an object in a dedicated isolate and forwards method calls to it, so timer- or event-loop-driven work (e.g. progress spinners) keeps running even when the calling isolate's event loop is blocked. Dependency-free.
Replies within ~2 days
| Metric | isolate_channel | isolated_object |
|---|---|---|
| Downloads / day | 25,818 | 9,016 |
| Rank in Background Tasks | #1 | #2 |
| GitHub stars | 7 | 3,252 |
| Likes | 32 | 8 |
| Pub points | 160 / 160 | 140 / 160 |
| Issue response (median) | — | 1 days |
| Contributors | 1 | 87 |
| Last commit | 6 months ago | yesterday |
| CI | No | Yes |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | BSD-3-Clause |
| First published | 1 year ago | 2 months ago |
| Platforms | android, ios, windows, linux, macos | android, ios, windows, linux, macos |
Highlighted cell wins each comparable metric. For rank, issue response, and last commit, lower is better.