Learn How to Setup Flutter with Android Studio

A perfect guide for installation of Flutter SDK in your machine

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What is Flutter?

Flutter is an open-source UI software Development Kit designed by google in 2017. It is mainly based on Dart programming language, which is an Object-Oriented Programming language.

Why use Flutter?

1. Flutter can write one codebase for 2 apps- covering both Android and IOS Platform.
2. Good for UI/UX designing layout methodology.
3. Hot reload changes the app UI in instant, unlike compared to Android Java or IOS Swift.
4. Good and Easy to understand Documentation which is given by official flutter Flutter documentation | Flutter

Prerequisite for Flutter Android Development

Your machine should have at least 8 gigs of RAM, an Intel/AMD processer which is new/mid-generation, and a GPU(optional if you will use the physical device as emulator).

Download Android Studio:

1. Go to Download Android Studio and SDK tools | Android Developers website and download the .exe file.
2. After downloading, run the setup file and read the instructions and click next

Download Git:

1. If you want to clone the repo from git, you need to download the git to your machine.
2. Click on this Git — Downloads (git-scm.com) and select the OS and it will automatically download the git exe file.
3. Run the exe file and follow the instructions given in the setup and click on the next button.

Download Flutter:

1. Go to Install | Flutter website and select the OS.
2. After Selecting OS, now you have two options:
3. Download it from the website manually and save it in a folder. or
4. Clone the flutter repo SDK from GitHub, make sure to clone the stable version only.
5. Here’s the git stable version of flutter:

git clone https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git -b stable

After installing Flutter:

Make sure to add the SDK folder path in a system environment variable. After all of these steps go to the windows console (cmd) and type

flutter --version

if you get the version details then Congrats you have successfully downloaded and installed the flutter in your machine!