How To Setup Flutter In Android Studio On Windows

Let's run Flutter in Android Studio, shall we?

How does the Flutter build process work?

To familiarize yourself with Flutter basics, you might want to understand the following concepts, before getting started with setting it up on Android Studio.

Flutter is a mobile application development framework that uses the Dart programming language to build cross-platform applications for Android and iOS.

When you run a Flutter application, the following steps occur:

• The Flutter framework initializes and sets up the application's execution environment.
• Your app's main function is called, which creates the root widget and initiates the build process.
• The build process creates a tree of widgets that represents the user interface of the application.
• Rendering of the widgets on the screen is done using underlying native platform's rendering engine. This makes Flutter applications behave just as native Android or iPhone apps.
• Flutter then listens for user input and updates the widget tree as necessary.
• Flutter then re-renders the widgets on the screen as needed based on the updated widget tree.

In short, when you run a Flutter application, the Flutter framework handles the initialization, rendering, and user input processing for the application.

Flutter uses the Dart runtime and the underlying native platform's rendering engine to build and display the user interface on the screen.

Flutter doesn't really depend on Android Studio to build and run.

It runs on command line in Windows (or Mac).

So the instructions will be identical to running Flutter in any other IDE.

However, there may be a good reason you want to run Flutter specifically in Android Studio. For example, because it's your favorite code editor, or you're simply used to it from working on a previous project.

Regardless the case, here are instructions on how to setup Flutter to ruin in Android Studio.

How to setup Flutter for running in Android Studio

First, download Android Studio and Flutter.

Step 1. Download Flutter and Android Studio

To install Flutter and run your first Flutter application in Android Studio on Windows, follow these steps:

Download and install the latest version of Flutter from the official website:

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

Download and install the latest version of Android Studio from the official website:

https://developer.android.com/studio

Step 2. Get Flutter and Dart plugins in Android Studio

Open Android Studio and install the Flutter and Dart plugins by going to File > Settings > Plugins and searching for "Flutter" and "Dart". Click on "Install" to install the plugins.

Restart Android Studio after the plugins are installed.

Step 3. Verify Flutter is properly installed by running flutter doctor

Open the terminal in Android Studio (Ctrl + `) and run the following command to verify that Flutter is installed and set up correctly:

flutter doctor

If there are any issues, follow the instructions provided by the flutter doctor command to resolve them.

Step 4. Create new Flutter project

Once Flutter is set up correctly, create a new Flutter project by going to File > New > New Flutter Project in Android Studio.

Follow the prompts to specify a name and location for your project, and then wait for the project to be created.

Step 5. Run your Flutter project in Android Studio

Once the project is created, you can run the default Flutter application by going to the terminal and running the following command:

flutter run

This will build and run the Flutter application, and you should see the default Flutter application running in an emulator or on a physical device.

You can now start modifying the default Flutter application and adding your own code to create your own Flutter application.