iOS: Eliminate FlutterEngine dealloc notification (#56650) FlutterEngineGroup keeps an array of all live FlutterEngine instances it has created such that after the first engine, it can spawn further engines using the first. Previously we manually managed this array by adding engines to it upon creation, then having [FlutterEngine dealloc] emit a notification such that FlutterEngineGroup can listen for it, and remove instances from the array upon reception of the notification. Instead, we now use an NSPointerArray of of weak pointers such that pointers are automatically nilled out by ARC after the last strong reference is collected. This eliminates the need for the manual notification during dealloc. Unfortunately, NSPointerArray is "clever" and assumes that if the array has not been mutated to store a nil pointer since its last compact call, it must not contain a nil pointer and can thus skip compaction. Under ARC, weak pointers are automatically nilled out when the last strong reference is released, so the above heuristic is no longer valid. We work around the issue by storing a nil pointer before calling compact. See http://www.openradar.me/15396578 for the radar tracking this bug. I'm not thrilled with the fact that we're replacing one sort of TODO with another, but the code is much simpler and avoids relying on a trip through the notification center, which seems objectively better. Issue: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/155943 Issue: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/137801 [C++, Objective-C, Java style guides]: https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#style https://dart.googlesource.com/external/github.com/flutter/engine/+/4f6a261765284b25368bbd792ab93c8f90cdb742
Monorepo is:
With depot_tools installed and on your path, create a directory for your monorepo checkout and run these commands to create a gclient solution in that directory:
mkdir monorepo cd monorepo gclient config --unmanaged https://dart.googlesource.com/monorepo gclient sync -D
This gives you a checkout in the monorepo directory that contains:
monorepo/ DEPS - the DEPS used for this gclient checkout commits.json - the pinned commits for Dart, flutter/engine, and flutter/flutter tools/ - scripts used to create monorepo DEPS engine/src/ - the flutter/buildroot repo flutter/ - the flutter/engine repo out/ - the build directory, where Flutter engine builds are created third_party/ - Flutter dependencies checked out by DEPS dart/ - the Dart SDK checkout. third_party - Dart dependencies, also used by Flutter flutter/ - the flutter/flutter repo
Flutter's instructions for building the engine are at Compiling the engine
They can be followed closely, with a few changes:
goma_ctl ensure_start is sufficient.Example build commands that work on linux:
MONOREPO_PATH=$PWD if [[ ! $PATH =~ (^|:)$MONOREPO_PATH/flutter/bin(:|$) ]]; then PATH=$MONOREPO_PATH/flutter/bin:$PATH fi export GOMA_DIR=$(dirname $(command -v gclient))/.cipd_bin goma_ctl ensure_start pushd engine/src flutter/tools/gn --goma --no-prebuilt-dart-sdk --unoptimized --full-dart-sdk autoninja -C out/host_debug_unopt popd
The Flutter commands used to build and run apps will use the locally built Flutter engine and Dart SDK, instead of the one downloaded by the Flutter tool, if the --local-engine option is provided.
For example, to build and run the Flutter spinning square sample on the web platform,
MONOREPO_PATH=$PWD cd flutter/examples/layers flutter --local-engine=host_debug_unopt \ -d chrome run widgets/spinning_square.dart cd $MONOREPO_PATH
To build for desktop, specify the desktop platform device in flutter run as -d macos or -d linux or -d windows. You may also need to run the command
flutter create --platforms=windows,macos,linux
on existing apps, such as sample apps. New apps created with flutter create already include these support files. Details of desktop support are at Desktop Support for Flutter
Tests in the Flutter source tree can be run with the flutter test command, run in the directory of a package containing tests. For example:
MONOREPO_PATH=$PWD cd flutter/packages/flutter flutter test --local-engine=host_debug_unopt cd $MONOREPO_PATH
Please file an issue or email the dart-engprod team with any problems with or questions about using monorepo.
We will update this documentation to address them.
flutter commands may download the engine and Dart SDK files for the configured channel, even though they will be using the local engine and its SDK.gclient sync needs to be run in an administrator session, because some installed dependencies create symlinks.