FLUTTER ENVIRONMENT SETUP
Ankit Kumar
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What is Flutter?
Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. We use dart language for coding of the app.
Why flutter?
- It is easy to create a beautiful app and user-friendly app(simple & sophisticated to use the app).
- Less code: It has limited code, so we can develop and fast. It has an inbuild UI.
- Hot reload feature.
- It provides us cross-platform feature.
How to set up the environment for the Flutter?
Firstly, we have to download the flutter file. For download go to the https://flutter.dev/ and download the file.
After installation, go and unzip the file and extract it in one folder. Once, it is extracted, go inside the bin folder and copy the file location and set the path in the environment variable.
List of the Software required along with Flutter
- Android Studio
- Visual Studio Code
Let begins the setup of Andriod Studio
You can download the Andriod Studio Code from https://developer.android.com/studio and install the software. While installing software, change the file location from this to
After download and then click on the configure and then
Choose the image you want to work and download the image. I have download pie image.
Accept and download.
Go to the cmd and flutter doctor, this will tell what you need to set up the flutter and what are the parts you have done.
Then it's, time to install the flutter plugin.
After plugin download, again to the configure and click on the SDK manager and then
download the ticked file. Then again go the cmd and type flutter doctor and see the issue.
Next, set the environment variable for the android studio.
The whole android studio is set up and ready to use.
Next, we will download and install the Virtual Studio Code. download the Visual Studion using the official website https://code.visualstudio.com/ and then install it.
After install, download the flutter plugin.
Your lab is set up for the flutter environment. Go and check using a flutter doctor command.
