Category Background Tasks
Most active Background Tasks packages
Background workers, isolates, schedulers, and long-running task managers
Ranked by total commits to the linked GitHub repository over the past 52 weeks. Packages need a public GitHub repo, at least 50 commits in the window, and at least 100 downloads a day. Monorepo siblings collapse to the highest-downloaded package.
screen_state first shipped 7 years ago. Ranks #2 in Background Tasks by commit activity, #26 by daily downloads in the same category.
| Rank | Package | Description | Commits / yr | Last commit | Downloads / day | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | aws-amplify.com | A cross-platform isolated worker runtime for Dart Web, VM, and Flutter. | 212 | 8d ago | 2.9K | ★ 1.4K |
| #2 | cachet.dk | A plugin for reporting screen events while the flutter application is running in background. Works for Android and iOS only. | 151 | 9d ago | 177 | ★ 611 |
| #3 | bbflight.com | A multi-platform background file downloader and uploader. Define the task, enqueue and monitor progress | 142 | 2mo ago | 3K | ★ 228 |
| #4 | fluttercommunity.dev | Flutter plugin for accessing the Android AlarmManager service, and running Dart code in the background when alarms fire. | 66 | 22d ago | 326 | ★ 1.9K |
| #5 | google.dev | Auxiliary classes for reliably running a periodic task in a long-running
process such as web-server.
| 62 | 6d ago | 357 | ★ 507 |
| #6 | d-markey.ovh | Multithreading and worker thread pool for Dart / Flutter, to offload CPU-bound and heavy I/O tasks to Isolate or Web Worker threads. | 53 | 1mo ago | 938 | ★ 131 |