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Multithreading in flutter!

Now, some of you might be wondering—Wait, what? Multithreading in Flutter? Yes, that’s correct! Flutter is fully capable of handling multithreading. While Flutter primarily relies on the main thread for rendering and performing other tasks, modern mobile processors come equipped with multiple threads, so why not take advantage of them? Some of you may be asking, why do we even need additional threads when the main thread can handle most tasks just fine? And I agree, the main thread can indeed manage a lot of work. However, when it comes to performance-heavy operations like complex computations or intensive data processing, you might notice that your app's UI starts to freeze, or you experience frame drops. This is where multithreading becomes the ideal solution, helping to offload these tasks and keep your UI responsive. Isolates Before diving into multithreading in Flutter, it's essential to first understand Isolates . Unlike traditional multithreading, where threads share mem