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@article{188822,
        author = {Shivam Shashikant Marolikar and Ashok Yadav},
        title = {Assessing The Stability And Quality Of The Flutter Plugin Ecosystem},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {3886-3891},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=188822},
        abstract = {This study evaluates the stability and quality of the Flutter plugin ecosystem, which plays a crucial role in cross-platform mobile application development. A total of 10 widely used Flutter plugins were selected from pub.dev to represent the most popular and frequently adopted libraries in real-world projects. The evaluation focused on five key metrics: update frequency, maintenance activity, contributor involvement, issue resolution rate, and security exposure. Results show that core plugins such as http, firebase_core, and sqflite exhibit strong maintenance activity and high contributor participation, indicating stable support and active development. In contrast, smaller utility plugins such as path and intl display lower update frequencies and fewer contributors, suggesting uneven maintenance across the ecosystem. No critical security vulnerabilities were identified, although some plugins contained outdated dependencies that could pose future risks. Overall, the findings suggest that the Flutter plugin ecosystem is stable and reliable, yet demonstrates variation in maintenance consistency depending on the nature and size of the plugin.},
        keywords = {},
        month = {December},
        }