Install Flutter On Windows Step By Step
Install Flutter On Windows Without Installing Android Studio Easy and Simple Way
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Sep 2, 2019 09:36
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Installing Flutter Is not as difficult as it easy to install and use if your a beginner please follow steps carefully to install flutter on you windows OS. Without Installing Android Studio Follow This Steps :
All the commands in this tutorials are executed using windows command prompt, just run it from start menu, or hit <windows-key> + R then type cmd
Creat directory
To keep everything in single place we will consider the dir C:\Android as main working directory
mkdir Android
cd Android
Installing OpenJDK 8
Download Windows binaries from the following url:
https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk8-binaries/releases/download/jdk8u202-b08/OpenJDK8U-jdk_x64_windows_hotspot_8u202b08.zip
extract it and rename the internal folder “jdk8u202-b08” to “openjdk” and copy it under “C:\Android” folder, so its path will be:
Installing Flutter SDK
Download flutter sdk latest version from following url:
https://flutter.io/docs/get-started/install/windows
extract it, and copy the folder with the name “flutter” to C:\Android folder, so the full path will be:
Installing Android command tools
https://developer.android.com/studio/#command-tools
extract it and rename the “tools” folder to “sdk”, then copy it under C:\Android folder, so the full path will be:
Set Some Environment variables
We need to define some environment variable which let the above tools know how to contact each other, form command prompt run these commands, one by one:
setx ANDROID_HOME “C:\Android”
setx ANDROID_SDK_ROOT “C:\Android\sdk”
setx path “%path%;”C:\Android\sdk;C:\Android\sdk\bin;C:\Android\flutter\bin”
Download Android SDK
As you may already know the Flutter are based on Android SDK to work , so we need to download system images, platform tools, build tools, platforms, and emulator, by running the following commands:
sdkmanager “platform-tools”
sdkmanager “build-tools;27.0.3”
sdkmanager “platforms;android-27”
sdkmanager emulator
- Note1: the date I write this tutorials the latest version of the above images was 28, but I downloaded the previous one, so I can develop app for wider range of Android OS versions, you can run the command
sdkmanager --listto see available images and choose whatever you want. - Note2: Make sure to accept any license that appear by pressing
ythenEnter, or nothing will be downloaded.
Accept the licenses
Android sdk images have licenses that need to be accepted, you do that with the command:
just press y then Enter for for every license.
Configure Flutter
configure flutter to know the dir of Android sdk path
Create the Emulator
Create a new emulator with the name “nexus” or choose the name you want:
Run the emulator
Moment of truth
Test flutter code
flutter run
If you follow this steps correctly and you succesfully installed Flutter in Your Windows Os The Congralutation Hope you enjoy installing flutter on windows
