Track widget rebuilds with packages in the Flutter Performance window

[AlexV525]

Use case

Track widget rebuilds in all/specific package when developing a package.

Proposal

When developing a package and run the example, only widgets in example can be tracked, without widgets in the package.

Screenshot shows that only these widgets (in the example) were tracked.

[jonahwilliams]

Removing from tools designation since devtools is a separate project

[AlexV525]

Should this assign to someone who can handle it? 😕

[jacob314]

Thanks for the feature request. If you add the specific package to your intellij project then you will start seeing it in the rebuilds indicator list. Maybe we should add a tip letting you know what to do if you see not enough widgets or too many widgets both in the widget rebuilds indicator tab and the inspector tabs.

[AlexV525]

If you add the specific package to your intellij project then you will start seeing it in the rebuilds indicator list.

You mean import the package as a module?

[AlexV525]

Self-assigning to document this in Flutter docs.

[AlexV525]

@DanTup Is this (importing modules for the inspector) available in the Dart-Code?

[DanTup]

@AlexV525 this should be driven by your open folders in VS Code. So if you click File -> Add Folder to Workspace and add a dependency, then that dependency should be given to DevTools as one of your projects, and show up in the same way here and in the inspector.

I suspect this will only work for local/path dependencies though, since adding a folder from PubCache to your workspace will likely result in a lot of diagnostic errors (I don't think the analyzer can analyze a PubCache package in isolation).

[AlexV525]

I suspect this will only work for local/path dependencies though, since adding a folder from PubCache to your workspace will likely result in a lot of diagnostic errors (I don't think the analyzer can analyze a PubCache package in isolation).

I did actually try this before, and it seems working well, but thanks for the notice I'll check again to see if it's available.

[AlexV525]

I think this should be transferred to the intellij repo instead.