Memory Leaks in State Management

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
dart, flutter

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by auditing stateful widgets for AnimationController, TextEditingController, ScrollController, StreamSubscription, ChangeNotifier listeners, and timers, then identify the project’s existing disposal patterns. Done means each resource is disposed or cancelled with its owning widget and the reported leaks are addressed.

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Description

Root Cause:

Inconsistent and incomplete resource disposal patterns Impact:

  • Memory leaks from undisposed controllers
  • Performance degradation over time
  • Potential crashes from accessing disposed resources
  • Battery drain from active subscriptions
What happened?
  • Missing dispose() methods in stateful widgets
  • Controllers not properly disposed
  • Stream subscriptions left active
  • Timers continuing after widget disposal
  • Animation controllers causing memory leaks
Examples of Resources to Dispose:
  • AnimationController
  • TextEditingController
  • ScrollController
  • StreamSubscription (e.g., network streams)
  • ChangeNotifier listeners
  • Any other objects that consume system resources or have active subscriptions.
Dominant language
Dart
Stars
9
Forks
5
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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