🧹 Flutter Assets Cleanup #

A powerful command-line tool to detect and remove unused assets from your Flutter projects. Keep your app bundle size optimized by identifying assets that are no longer referenced in your codebase.

✨ Features #

• 🔍 Smart Detection - Finds assets referenced via constants (AppAssets, AppIcons, Images, LottieAnimations) and literal paths
• 📊 Detailed Reports - Generates comprehensive Markdown reports with size breakdowns
• 🎯 Safe Cleanup - Creates deletion scripts for review before removing files
• ⚡ Fast Performance - Efficiently scans large codebases
• 🎨 Beautiful Output - Clean, colorful terminal interface with progress bars
• 📦 Size Analysis - Shows potential space savings

📸 Demo #

Flutter Asset Cleaner v1.0.0

  Indexing assets      ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% · 210 files
  Indexing code        ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% · 809 files

  Parsing constants    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% · 345 identifiers

  Scanning references  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 100% · 809 files

Summary
  Total assets          210
  Used                  204
  Unused                6
  Total size            25.3 MB
  Used size             25.1 MB
  Potential reclaim     184.1 KB
  Time                  2s

  ✓ Report saved to build/unused_assets_report.md
  ✓ Script saved to delete_unused_assets.sh

🚀 Installation #

Global Installation (Recommended) #

dart pub global activate flutter_assets_cleanup

As Dev Dependency #

Add to your pubspec.yaml:

dev_dependencies:
  flutter_assets_cleanup: ^1.0.0

Then run:

flutter pub get

📖 Usage #

Basic Usage #

# Navigate to your Flutter project
cd /path/to/your/flutter/project

# Run the scan
flutter_assets_cleanup

Command Line Options #

Examples #

# Scan and generate report
flutter_assets_cleanup

# Custom progress bar width
flutter_assets_cleanup --bar=60

# Quiet mode for CI/CD
flutter_assets_cleanup --quiet --no-color

# Delete unused assets (after review!)
flutter_assets_cleanup --delete

🎯 How It Works #

1. Discovery - Scans your assets/ directory for all image and animation files
2. Parsing - Extracts asset constants from your code (AppAssets, AppIcons, Images, LottieAnimations)
3. Analysis - Scans your entire codebase for references to these assets
4. Reporting - Generates detailed reports and safe deletion scripts

Supported Asset Patterns #

Constant-based references:

class AppIcons {
  static const String logo = 'assets/icons/logo.svg';
}

// Usage
Image.asset(AppIcons.logo)

Literal path references:

Image.asset('assets/images/background.png')

Alias references:

class AppAssets {
  static const String logo = AppIcons.logo;
}

📊 Generated Output #

Markdown Report (build/unused_assets_report.md) #

• Overview with statistics
• Size breakdown by file extension
• List of heaviest unused files
• Complete unused assets list with identifiers

Deletion Script (delete_unused_assets.sh) #

• Reviewable bash script
• Lists all files to be deleted with sizes
• Can be run manually or committed for team review

🔧 Project Structure #

Your project should have:

your_flutter_app/
├── assets/
│   ├── icons/
│   ├── images/
│   └── animations/
├── lib/
│   └── constants/
│       └── app_assets.dart  # Your asset constants
└── pubspec.yaml

💡 Best Practices #

1. ✅ Always commit your changes before using --delete
2. ✅ Review the report before deleting anything
3. ✅ Use constants for asset references (AppIcons, Images, etc.)
4. ✅ Run regularly to prevent asset bloat
5. ✅ Check native code - Assets used in Android/iOS won't be detected

⚠️ Important Notes #

What Gets Detected ✅ #

• Static constant references (AppIcons.logo)
• Literal string paths ('assets/images/bg.png')
• Aliased references

What Doesn't Get Detected ❌ #

• Dynamic path construction ('assets/$variable.png')
• Native code references (Android/iOS)
• Assets loaded from configuration/API

🤔 FAQ #

Q: Will this detect assets used in native code?
A: No, only Dart code is scanned. Keep native assets manually.

Q: What about dynamically constructed paths?
A: Only literal strings and constants are detected.

Q: Can I undo deletions?
A: Use version control (git). Always commit before using --delete.

📄 License #

MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Contributing #

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

🐛 Issues #

Found a bug? Have a feature request? Please open an issue on GitHub.

⭐ Show Your Support #

If this tool helps you, give it a ⭐ on GitHub!

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