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This PR updates almost* all Gradle buildscripts in the Flutter repo the `example` and `dev` (in particular, in `dev/integration_tests` and in `dev/benchmarks`) directories to apply Flutter's Gradle plugins using the declarative `plugins {}` block.
*almost, because:
- add-to-app (aka hybrid) apps are not migrated (related https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/138756)
- apps that purposefully use build files to ensure backward compatibility (e.g. [`gradle_deprecated_settings`](https://github.com/flutter/flutter/tree/3.16.0/dev/integration_tests/gradle_deprecated_settings))
microbenchmarks
To run these benchmarks on a device, first run `flutter logs' in one window to see the device logs, then, in a different window, run any of these:
flutter run --release lib/gestures/velocity_tracker_bench.dart
flutter run --release lib/gestures/gesture_detector_bench.dart
flutter run --release lib/stocks/animation_bench.dart
flutter run --release lib/stocks/build_bench.dart
flutter run --release lib/stocks/layout_bench.dart
The results should be in the device logs.
Avoid changing names of the benchmarks
Each microbenchmark is identified by a name, for example, "catmullrom_transform_iteration". Changing the name of an existing microbenchmarks will effectively remove the old benchmark and create a new one, losing the historical data associated with the old benchmark in the process.