Setup Flutter Environment

3 min readJul 9, 2020

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Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.

Set up your Flutter environment(Windows install)

You need two pieces of software to complete this lab — the Flutter SDK and an editor+Android Studio.

Requirements

Let’s get installing

install PowerShell 5.0 or newer version & Git (just go with the flow run and you know what to do)
unzip the Flutter SDK in your preferred location like C:\Program Files\

Update your path

search bar, enter ‘env’, and select Edit environment variables for your account.
Under User, variables append the full path to flutter\bin

3. Click ok and restart your computer

4. To check if it is done open CMD or PowerShell and type “flutter doctor” and hit enter.

Install android studio

Before installing Android SDK, you need to install Java Development Kit (JDK). Read “How to install JDK”. Ensure that your JDK is at or above 1.8. You can check your JDK version with command “javac -version".
If you downloaded an .exe file (recommended), double-click to launch it.
If you downloaded a .zip file, unpack the ZIP, copy the android-studio folder into your Program Files folder, and then open the android-studio > bin folder and launch studio64.exe (for 64-bit machines) or studio.exe (for 32-bit machines).
In “Choose Components”, select “Android Studio” and “Android Virtual Device”.
In “Configuration Settings Install Location”, accept the default “C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio".
In “Choose Start Menu Folder”, accept the default ⇒ Install.
Launch Android Studio. Continue to the next Step
Start Android Studio, and go through the ‘Android Studio Setup Wizard’. This installs the latest Android SDK, Android SDK Command-line Tools, and Android SDK Build-Tools, which are required by Flutter when developing for Android.

To prepare to run and test your Flutter app on an Android device, you need an Android device running Android 4.1 or higher.

Enable Developer options and USB debugging on your device. Detailed instructions are available in the Android documentation.
Windows-only: Install the Google USB Driver.
Using a USB cable, plug your phone into your computer. If prompted on your device, authorize your computer to access your device.
In the terminal, run the flutter devices command to verify that Flutter recognizes your connected Android device. By default, Flutter uses the version of the Android SDK where your adb tool is based. If you want Flutter to use a different installation of the Android SDK, you must set the ANDROID_SDK_ROOT environment variable to that installation directory.

Start Android Studio.
Open plugin preferences (File > Settings > Plugins).
Select Browse repositories, select the Flutter plugin and click Install.
Click Yes when prompted to install the Dart plugin.
Click Restart when prompted.

VS Code is a lightweight editor with Flutter app execution and debug support.

Start VS Code.
Invoke View > Command Palette….
Type “install”, and select Extensions: Install Extensions.
Type “flutter” in the extensions search field, select Flutter in the list and click Install. This also installs the required Dart plugin.

Invoke View > Command Palette….
Type “doctor”, and select the Flutter: Run Flutter Doctor.
Review the output in the OUTPUT pane for any issues. Make sure to select Flutter from the dropdown in the different Output Options.

Feel free to comment or ask queries in the comments section.

To learn more about flutter visit the official website flutter.dev.