- Updates dependencies to null-safe versions
- Migrates common.dart (which doesn't depend on anything)
- Migrates common_tests.dart and its one dependency, utils.dart
- Adds build_runner for Mockito mock generation
- Adds a new utility methods for getting arguments that handle both the casting and the removal of nullability to address a common problematic pattern while migrating code.
- Converts all files, not just the migrated ones, to those new helpers.
Migrating common.dart and utils.dart should unblock a command-by-command migration to null safety.
Reverts the separate of podspect lints into a step that doesn't do a Flutter upgrade
(https://github.com/flutter/plugins/pull/3700) because without that step we had a
version of Dart too old to run null-safe tooling.
First step of https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/81912
Removes the legacy analysis options override and fixes all resulting issues. This is a combination of dart fix and manual changes (mostly mechanical, but some small restructuring to address warnings more cleanly, such as creating typed structs from args when they are used repeatedly to avoid repeated casting, or making things that were unnecessarily public private).
One small opportunistic extra cleanup is that the handling of null-safety prerelease versions is removed, as any new plugin would be written null-safe from the start, so we no longer need to allow those versions.
Part of flutter/flutter#76229
