#Flutter for mac m1 how to#
#Flutter for mac m1 install#
#Flutter for mac m1 for android#
#Flutter for mac m1 pro#
#Flutter for mac m1 software#

#Flutter for mac m1 install#

Option: install macOS anew on a separate volume

#Flutter for mac m1 pro#

We'll do the installation on a clean MacBook Pro with M1 Pro chip, on macOS 12.3.1 that is the latest one available in March-April 2022. Refer to the Title illustration blocks and observe that the logic of this sequence maps the relations between the blocks.

#Flutter for mac m1 for android#

Set up the device emulators for Android and iOS.Install Flutter SDK and Flutter plugin for Android Studio.Installation planĪlthough each IDE (Android Studio, Flutter SDK, Xcode) is a world by itself, if you follow the logical order of installation, each component will be nicely aware of the previous ones. The whole construction involving Android and Xcode is complex, if you miss a command line option here, there are chances that you mess up the whole system and have to reinstall from scratch. However, it is wiser to look for a solution first in Android Studio menu items because they invoke the Flutter commands more thoroughly than does the average programmer. In a similar reasoning, most developers are tempted to use directly command line instructions to solve an issue during Flutter installation and execution. If you use VSCode, whenever you experience a bug there is always a possibility that your Android SDK is not up to date. The reason is that Flutter evolves very fast to keep up with Apple's changes and Android Studio does a better job keeping its Flutter SDK up to date. Android Studio user interface is very similar to VSCode. However, I'd recommend that an average programmer who has no Flutter experience rather uses Android Studio for Flutter development. There are excellent Flutter plugins for VSCode, so you may want to keep using VSCode to develop with Flutter. I use it for blockchain, React and general-purpose development. Installing Flutter on macOS General considerations CocoaPods is a package (external module) manager written in Ruby for iOS development, like Gradle for Kotlin (included in Android Studio) or NPM for JavaScript.

It supports the languages Swift, C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, Java, Ruby, Python.

Xcode is an Apple IDE for iOS development.

Flutter SDK is a plug-in for Android Studio, that uses the language Dart to generate code that is cross-platform Android and iOS.

Android SDK supports the language Kotlin, C++ and Java.

Android SDK, together with Android Studio, is an IDE for general Android development.

Android Studio is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), like Visual Studio.

We will install successively each of the coloured boxes that compose the Flutter development environment shown in the Title image. It also has work-arounds to address the imperfect state of the tools, at the date of April 2022. This tutorial contains explanations to better understand the purpose of each step. This understanding is useful as early as when installing Flutter, and is indispensable when packaging the apps for public submission to Play Store and App Store.

Because Flutter generates code that is compatible with Android and iOS, the Flutter programmer needs to have some knowledge of both development environments.

The documentation is not always up to date.

Flutter is changing quickly to catch up with the rapid evolution of macOS.Apple plans to replace by 2022 all the Intel-based line of products (X86_64) with ARM64-based machines. Macintosh M1 is the new generation of Apple computers using ARM64 chips.

It is used to develop applications for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows, Google Fuchsia (future Google's smartphone OS, after Android and Chrome OS) and the web, using a single codebase.

#Flutter for mac m1 software#

Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google.

To install Flutter on other platforms, I recommend the e-book TLDR (Too Long Didn’t Read)

Part 3 covers the installation of Flutter itself in Android Studio, along with housekeeping best practices.

Part 2 guides the installation of the 2 IDE Xcode and Android Studio.

Part 1, this document, presents the general view of the components that are installed and shows how the install the indispensable preparation tools.

It helps debugging of installation and development errors, and makes easier the transition to free hands-on Flutter programming courses such as this –highly recommended– book Flutter Apprentice ( ). The added-value of this step-by-step tutorial is that (1) all steps have been tested on a clean install and (2) the reason of each step is explained along with its role in the big picture.

#Flutter for mac m1 how to#

There are many tutorials how to install Flutter on a Mac with the M1 chip.