Monthly Report #1 - Top Dart & Flutter Packages in October, 2022

This Flutter Gems report presents a list of packages that gained significant user traction in October, 2022. The purpose of this report is to help Flutter Developers gain some insights into the current state of Flutter ecosystem in regards to package adoption. It can also help you discover new packages that are gaining popularity and user acceptance not just on pub.dev, but also on GitHub or any other cloud VCS.

Top performing Dart 🎯 & Flutter 💙 packages in October, 2022 have been categorized into:

Rising Stars 🌟 - Top packages with their first release in October, 2022 or in the previous month.
Going Strong 💪 - Top packages built by the community.
Google Leaderboard 🙌 - Top packages built by Flutter, Dart, Firebase or any other Google team.
Give them all a Medal 🥇 - Longest maintained packages by the community.

You can check out the Package Eligibility Criteria for this report here and learn more about how we count stars for packages that reside in a mono-repo here.

Rising Stars 🌟

Top Dart and Flutter packages in October, 2022 that saw their first release in the last two months, along with their corresponding functional category.

#	Package Name	Category	First Release	Likes 👍 in October, 2022	Stars 🌟 in October, 2022
1	riverpod_generator	State Management	30 Sep 2022	71	8
2	patrol	Testing	12 Sep 2022	32	46
3	firebase_ui_auth	Authentication Providers & UI	19 Oct 2022	73	2
4	bottom_bar_matu	Bottom Navigation Bar	09 Oct 2022	48	5
5	live_activities	Home Screen, App Icon & Name	29 Sep 2022	28	20
6	flutter_adaptive_scaffold	Responsive UI	14 Sep 2022	45	1
7	interactive	Developer Tools	23 Oct 2022	4	40
8	responsive_styles	Responsive UI	20 Sep 2022	3	35
9	pluto_layout	Tab	13 Oct 2022	14	15
10	rx_future	State Management	03 Oct 2022	22	4
11	ar_location_view	AR & VR	14 Oct 2022	22	4
12	bdk_flutter	Web3, Crypto & Blockchain	09 Oct 2022	7	16
13	syncfusion_flutter_pdfviewer	PDF	29 Sep 2022	17	4
14	variable_app_icon	Home Screen, App Icon & Name	19 Sep 2022	18	3
15	telpo_flutter_sdk	Printing	18 Oct 2022	7	14
16	peerdart	Real-time Communication	23 Sep 2022	5	15
17	animated_notch_bottom_bar	Bottom Navigation Bar	14 Sep 2022	14	5
18	cr_file_saver	File, Folder & Path Utilities	13 Oct 2022	19	0
19	ninepatch_image	Image	12 Oct 2022	13	6
20	tgtg_client	API	10 Oct 2022	6	13

Going Strong 💪

Dart and Flutter packages that gained major traction (user likes & stars) in October, 2022. The below list does not include any package published by Flutter, Dart, Firebase or any other Google team (see separate list below).

#	Package Name	Category	Likes 👍 in October, 2022	Stars 🌟 in October, 2022
1	get	State Management	297	173
2	riverpod	State Management	152	135
3	isar	Persistent NoSQL Datastore	90	149
4	flutter_bloc	State Management	111	106
5	flutter_native_splash	Splash Screen	177	30
6	fl_chart	Plots & Visualization	114	83
7	honey	Testing	5	192
8	provider	State Management	150	39
9	dio	HTTP Client & Utilities	113	68
10	hive	Persistent NoSQL Datastore	127	42
11	fluttium_cli	Testing	9	160
12	flutter_launcher_icons	Home Screen, App Icon & Name	142	24
13	flutter_riverpod	State Management	78	79
14	permission_handler	Cryptography, Security & Permissions	122	35
15	flame	Game Development	30	124
16	getwidget	Widget Library & UI Framework	64	86
17	flutter_local_notifications	Messaging & Push Notification	111	29
18	share_plus	Sharing & Intent	95	44
19	flutter_animate	Animation & Transition	92	45
20	connectivity_plus	Network Connectivity Status	90	46
21	flutter_screenutil	Responsive UI	88	44
22	serverpod	Backend, Web Server & Web Framework	42	87
23	freezed	Code Generator & Serialization (JSON)	94	33
24	fluent_ui	Design System	73	46
25	file_picker	File Picker	97	21
26	cached_network_image	Image	105	11
27	flutter_svg	Image	100	14
28	flutter_slidable	List	95	18
29	carousel_slider	Carousel or Cover Flow	101	11
30	modal_bottom_sheet	Bottom Panels & Bottomsheets	86	26

Google Leaderboard 🙌

Top performing Dart and Flutter packages developed by the Google team (Firebase, Flutter, Dart, etc.) in October, 2022.

#	Package Name	Category	Likes 👍 in October, 2022
1	shared_preferences	Persistent NoSQL Datastore	135
2	image_picker	Multimedia Picker	140
3	url_launcher	Sharing & Intent	120
4	animations	Animation & Transition	108
5	go_router	Routing	142
6	firebase_messaging	Messaging & Push Notification	67
7	path_provider	File, Folder & Path Utilities	90
8	http	HTTP Client & Utilities	130
9	firebase_auth	Authentication Providers & UI	57
10	firebase_core	Firebase	72
11	cloud_firestore	Cloud Storage & Cloud Database	50
12	google_maps_flutter	Geolocation & Maps	75
13	webview_flutter	WebView	72

Give them all a Medal 🥇

Dart packages by the community that had the longest maintenance streak until October, 2022.

#	Package Name	Category	First Release	Last Updated	Streak 🏃‍♂️ (in days)
1	xml	XML, JSON & Interchange Formats	25 Sep 2012	23 Oct 2022	3680
2	mongo_dart	Database Adapters & Connectors	12 Oct 2012	30 Oct 2022	3669
3	petitparser	Parsing & Other Text Utilities	23 Oct 2012	23 Oct 2022	3651
4	decimal	Math Utilities	20 Jan 2013	07 Sep 2022	3516
5	google_maps	Geolocation & Maps	29 Oct 2012	10 Jun 2022	3510
6	uuid	Cryptography, Security & Permissions	18 Oct 2012	19 Feb 2022	3411
7	mailer	HTTP Client & Utilities	04 May 2013	02 Jul 2022	3346
8	archive	Compressed Files	31 Dec 2013	16 Oct 2022	3211
9	image	Image	11 Jan 2014	16 Oct 2022	3200
10	math_expressions	Math Utilities	04 Oct 2013	30 May 2022	3159
11	github	API	30 Jul 2014	01 Nov 2022	3015
12	sembast	Persistent NoSQL Datastore	17 Dec 2014	11 Oct 2022	2854
13	dartx	Dart Extension & Enhancement	03 Jul 2014	12 Apr 2022	2840
14	timeago	Date & Time Utilities	26 Apr 2015	11 Aug 2022	2664
15	reflectable	Dart Extension & Enhancement	28 Jul 2015	02 Nov 2022	2654
16	csv	CSV, Excel, ODS & Sheets	05 Oct 2014	18 Nov 2021	2601

Package Eligibility Criteria

All packages that were analysed for this report met the following eligibility criteria as on October, 2022:

At least one release in the last 365 days (1yr). Pre-release is not included.
A valid repository link on pub.dev.
[Only for Rising Stars] First release either in the current report month or the previous month. A pre-release can be available prior to this period.

How do we count stars for packages that reside in a mono-repo?

If two or more packages reside in a single mono-repo comprising only Dart and Flutter packages (see flutter/plugins), the effective star growth count of a package is computed by multiplying the total star count increase and the ratio of its pub.dev page likes to the maximum likes a package belonging to the same repo received on pub.dev by the end of the month.
For example, let us say package1, package2 and package3 belong to the same repo which saw an increase of 20 stars in a report month. If by the end of the month, likes of the 3 packages are 2, 4 and 10 respectively, then the effective star growth of package1 is 20*2/10 = 4, for package2 it is 20*4/10 = 8 and for package3 it is 20*10/10 = 20.
If a package belongs to a mono-repo of a much larger project then any increase in repo stars cannot be effectively attributed to the package, so for such packages the star count increase is set as 0.