Flutter Development Setup in Windows

flutter-development-setup-windows.md

Flutter Development Setup on Windows

1. Download and install dart

https://dart.dev/get-dart

choco install dart-sdk

• Add dart-sdk path in environment variables

2. Download and install flutter

https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install/windows

• Download latest flutter zip from here and extract to a location
• Add flutter path in environment variables

3. Download and install Android SDK

https://developer.android.com/studio

Necessary for Android app development

• Download Android Studio IDE from here(which comes with SDK management tool) and install.
• Open Android Studio, go to Settings -> Language and Frameworks -> Select Android SDK -> Click SDK tools tab -> Check Android SDK Command-line tools

4. Download and install Visual Studio

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

Necessary for Windows app development

• Download Visual Studio Install from here
• Once wizard is open, select "Desktop development with C++", keep the recomended packages checked and click "Install"

5. Configure flutter

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/70098984
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/62620293

• Update SDK path in flutter config. Open windows powershell and run below

  > flutter config --android-sdk E:\tools\Sdk
  

• Accept Android Licence by running below command in powershell

  > flutter doctor --android-licenses
  

• Once done, run flutter doctor in window powershell to verify configuration

  PS C:\Users\veere> flutter doctor
  Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
  [√] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.10.6, on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.2070], locale en-IN)
  [√] Windows Version (Installed version of Windows is version 10 or higher)
  [√] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 34.0.0)
  [√] Chrome - develop for the web
  [√] Visual Studio - develop for Windows (Visual Studio Community 2022 17.6.5)
  [√] Android Studio (version 2022.3)
  [√] VS Code (version 1.80.2)
  [√] VS Code, 64-bit edition (version 1.80.1)
  [√] Connected device (3 available)
  [√] Network resources
  • No issues found!