On compiling a Flutter App to APK and looking in the APK analyser I find that 68% of the size of my app is accounted for by one library libVkLayer_khronos_validation.so

Trying to find out now where this dependency comes from, if is it necessary and can I exclude it.

My pubspec.yaml delcares the following depencies

dependencies:
  flutter:
    sdk: flutter

  cupertino_icons: ^1.0.2
  shared_preferences: ^2.2.3

dev_dependencies:
  flutter_test:
    sdk: flutter

  flutter_lints: ^1.0.0

I have tried calling ‘flutter pub deps’ as per this stackoverflow but it doesn’t show up there. I have also looked at the dependencies tab under the Android Studio Project Structure and I can’t find it there either.

Any additional suggestions as to either where to look or why it may be included would be gratefully received.