Category Background Tasks
Top Background Tasks packages by yearly commits
Background workers, isolates, schedulers, and long-running task managers
Ranks repos by total commits over the past 52 weeks. Activity, not quality. A finished library may rank low. A thrashing one may rank high.
Packages need a public GitHub repo, at least 50 commits in the past 52 weeks, and at least 100 downloads a day. Monorepo siblings collapse to the highest-downloaded package.
screen_state first shipped 7 years ago. Ranks #3 in Background Tasks by commit activity, #27 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. | 229 | 9d ago | 3.2K | ★ 1.4K |
| #2 | 🇺🇸 bbflight.com | A multi-platform background file downloader and uploader. Define the task, enqueue and monitor progress | 152 | 1mo ago | 4.1K | ★ 233 |
| #3 | 🇩🇰 cachet.dk | A plugin for reporting screen events while the flutter application is running in background. Works for Android and iOS only. | 110 | 12d ago | 198 | ★ 610 |
| #4 | 🇺🇸 fluttercommunity.dev | Flutter plugin for accessing the Android AlarmManager service, and running Dart code in the background when alarms fire. | 91 | 9d ago | 416 | ★ 1.9K |
| #5 | 🇺🇸 google.dev | Auxiliary classes for reliably running a periodic task in a long-running
process such as web-server.
| 73 | 10d ago | 257 | ★ 508 |
| #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. | 51 | 3mo ago | 471 | ★ 133 |
