What is isolate in Flutter?

Dart is a single threaded language, but it comes with a handy compute function to spawn isolates . In a nutshell, the compute function is useful for doing extra work on a different “thread”–it’s actually an isolate–so your flutter app does not experience “jank”. Jank occurs when the UI doesn’t render smoothly.29 Eyl 2019

compute<Q, R> function Q is the type of the message that kicks off the computation . R is the type of the value returned. The callback argument must be a top-level function, not a closure or an instance or static method of a class.