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Installing Flutter

Note

If you have already Flutter installed on your machine, you can skip to the next step.

Flutter​

Flutter is Google’s portable UI toolkit for crafting beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Flutter works with existing code, is used by developers and organizations around the world, and is free and open source.

How To Install Flutter​

First, enter to that link Get Started With Flutter

This page will be shown to you

  • 1- choose your operation system.
Note

In this tutorial, we will continue with Windows, but the process should be valid for other operation system





  • 2- click the button to download.

  • 3- After it's downloaded, extract the zip file and place the contained flutter in the desired installation location for the Flutter SDK (for example, C:\src\flutter).

  • 4- Copy the full path of the downloaded Flutter sdk folder to flutter\bin.

Warning

Do not install Flutter to a path that contains special characters or spaces.

Warning

Do not install Flutter in a directory like C:\Program Files\

5- If you wish to run Flutter commands in the regular Windows console, take these steps to add Flutter to the PATH environment variable:

  • 5-1- From the Start search bar, enter ‘env’ and select Edit environment variables for your account.

  • 5-2- Under User variables check if there is an entry called Path.

  • 5-3- Click on Edit. a new Dialog will open from it, click on "new" and paste the link you copied as its value

Note

Please make sure the path you copied ends with /flutter/bin

  • 6- Now Restart your pc for changes to take effect
Note

We are assuming that you followed the steps until step 6, and restarted your pc

7- open the command line cmd, from the Start search bar, type cmd and open it 8- run the following command:

flutter doctor

This command checks your environment and displays a report of the status of your Flutter installation. Check the output carefully for other software you might need to install or further tasks to perform (shown in bold text).

9- confirm that it show something like that

[-] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices
    • Android SDK at D:\Android\sdk
    ✗ Android SDK is missing command line tools; download from https://goo.gl/XxQghQ
    • Try re-installing or updating your Android SDK,
      visit https://docs.flutter.dev/setup/#android-setup for detailed instructions.