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Installation Guide

System Requirements

To install and run Flutter, your development environment must meet these minimum requirements:

Operating Systems:
Windows 10 or later (64-bit), x86-64 based.

Disk Space:
1.64 GB (does not include disk space for IDE tools).

Tools:
Flutter depends on these tools being available in your environment.

  • Windows PowerShell 5.0 or newer (this is pre-installed with Windows 10)
  • Git for Windows 2.x, with the Use Git from the Windows Command Prompt option.

Downloads

Optional

Installation Steps

Git

  • Run the executable file probable with the name Git-2.38.0-64-bit.exe.

  • Simply do next next install with all the default options.

Flutter SDK

  • Extract the flutter_windows_3.3.4-stable.zip file to your preferred location. It wont be easy to change the location later. So extract the zip accordingly.

  • Once installed, we need to set the PATH environment variable.

  • To set the environment variable, navigate to the bin folder inside flutter folder and copy the full path. Example: D:/dev/flutter/bin

  • Now go to the properties of This PC and navigate to

    Advance System Settings >> Environment Variables

  • There in the user variables or in the system variables edit the Path variable.

  • To edit the Path variable you can either double click the path or select the path and click the edit button given below.

  • In the edit prompt, click new and paste the path to bin folder, copied earlier.

Checking Installation

  • Open command prompt and run the following command.

    flutter doctor

  • Depending on your system and internet speed this may take a while.

  • It may download dart sdk.

  • And after everything is finished, it should give the following output.

Running "flutter pub get" in flutter_tools... 8,9s
Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[√] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.3.4, on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.978], locale en-US)
[X] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices
    X Unable to locate Android SDK.
    Install Android Studio from: https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html
    On first launch it will assist you in installing the Android SDK components.
    (or visit https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/windows#android-setup for detailed instructions).
    If the Android SDK has been installed to a custom location, please use
    'flutter config --android-sdk' to update to that location.

[√] Chrome - develop for the web
[X] Visual Studio - develop for Windows
     X Visual Studio not installed; this is necessary for Windows development.
   	Download at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/.
   	Please install the "Desktop development with C++" workload, including all of its default components
[!] Android Studio (not installed)
[√] Connected device (2 available)
[√] HTTP Host Availability

! Doctor found issues in 3 categories.

Android Studio

  • Run the android-studio-2021.3.1.16-windows.exe.

  • Click next next and keep the standard installation.

  • Click next next and finish.

  • To accept the licences make sure you check all the licences on the left tab.

  • Wait for the installaion, it will take time.

  • If you do not plan to install VSCode then you need to install the flutter plugin in the marketplace. It is not required if you will be using vscode.

    • To install the plugins go to the plugins tab on the left side and search for flutter in the marketplace.

    • Click install. It will ask you to install the dart plugin, install it as well.

    • If it asks you to restart the android studio, do that.

  • Next, go to sdk manager in more actions. There in the SDK Tools tab make sure that the Android SDK Command-line Tools (latest) is checked. Then hit ok.

  • If it was already checked then it wont download anything, otherwise it will first download the command-line tools.

Checking the installation

  • Reopen command prompt and run:

    flutter doctor

  • this time it should give the following output.

Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[√] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.3.4, on Microsoft Windows [version 10.0.22000.978), locale en-US)
[!] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 32.1.0-rc1)
    ! Some Android licenses not accepted. To resolve this, run: flutter doctor --android-licenses
[√] Chrome - develop for the web
[X] Visual Studio - develop for Windows
    X Visual Studio not installed; this is necessary for Windows development.
      Download at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/.
      Please install the "Desktop development with C++" workload, including all of its default components
[√] Android Studio (version 2021.2)
[√] Connected device (2 available)
[√] HTTP Host Availability

! Doctor found issues in 2 categories.

Accepting Android Licenses

  • Run the following command. And when asked, input y to all prompts, to accept licenses. 
    flutter doctor --android-licenses

Checking the installation

  • Re-running flutter doctor should give following output.
Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[√] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.3.4, on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.978], locale en-US)
[√] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 32.1.0-rc1)
[√] Chrome - develop for the web
[X] Visual Studio - develop for Windows
    X Visual Studio not installed; this is necessary for Windows development.
      Download at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/.
      Please install the "Desktop development with C++" workload, including all of its default components
[√] Android Studio (version 2021.2)
[√] Connected device (2 available)
[√] HTTP Host Availability

! Doctor found issues in 1 category.

VSCode (Optional but Recommended)

  • Run the installer (VSCodeUserSetup-{version}.exe). This will only take a minute.

  • By default, VS Code is installed under C:\Users{Username}\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code.

    • Alternatively, you can also download a Zip archive, extract it and run Code from there.

  • Open VSCode and go to the extensions tab in the left panel. Search for flutter, and install the verified Flutter extension provided by Dart Code.

  • Here it will also ask you to install Dart extension, install it as well.

Visual Studio (Optional)

  • Run the VisualStudioSetup.exe.

  • Install the Desktop development with C++ workload.

Checking the installation

  • Re-run flutter doctor. It should give the following output.
Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):                                     
[√] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.3.4, on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.978], locale en-IN)                        
[√] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 33.0.0)                                    
[√] Chrome - develop for the web                                   
[√] Visual Studio - develop for Windows (Visual Studio Community 2022 17.3.1)                                    
[√] Android Studio (version 2021.2)                                    
[√] VS Code (version 1.72.0)                                    
[√] Connected device (3 available)                          
[√] HTTP Host Availability                        
• No issues found!

If you are getting the above output, great job the installation is successful. Let me know if you are facing any problems

You can also checkout these youtube installation guide

Creating a project

  • Go to your preferred project directory.

  • Open command prompt there.

    • type cmd into the folder path at the top of the window to open a command prompt within the folder.

  • Run following command

    flutter create myapp

  • Open myapp in VSCode or Android Studio.