Installing Flutter

Set up an editor

Installing Flutter requires you to have Android Studio or Visual Studio Code installed as you will need to set up an emulator or connect an android device to run your flutter app. You can build Flutter apps on Android studio or VS Code. In this project, we’d be using the android studio as our editor. However, you can feel free to use any editor of your choice.

Setting up  android studio

Follow the link below to set up your android studio

https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/editor?tab=androidstudio

Setting up  VS Code

Follow the link below to set up your VS Code

https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/editor?tab=vscode

Install Flutter On Windows OS

To install Flutter on Windows, you can follow these steps:

1. Download the Flutter SDK for Windows from the official website (https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install/windows).
2. Extract the downloaded ZIP file to a location on your computer where you want to install Flutter (e.g. C:\src\flutter).
3. Add the Flutter bin directory to your system's PATH environment variable:
4. • Open the Start menu and search for "Environment Variables"
   • Click "Edit the system environment variables"
   • Click the "Environment Variables" button
   • Under "System Variables", scroll down and click "Path"
   • Click the "Edit" button
   • Click the "New" button and add the path to the Flutter bin directory (e.g. C:\src\flutter\bin)
4. Open a new Command Prompt and run the command flutter doctor to check if Flutter is installed correctly.
5. It should show you if there are any dependencies that you need to install.

Install Flutter On Mac OS

To install Flutter on Mac, you can follow these steps:

1. Download the Flutter SDK for Mac from the official website (https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install/macos).
2. Extract the downloaded ZIP file to a location on your computer where you want to install Flutter (e.g. /usr/local/flutter).
3. Add the Flutter command line tools to your PATH environment variable:
4. • Open (or create) the rcfile for your shell. Typing echo $SHELLin your Terminal tells you which shell you’re using.
   • if you are using a bash profile, edit $HOME/.bash_profile . If you’re using Z shell, edit $HOME/.zshrc
   • Add the following line to the file: **export PATH="$PATH[**PATH_OF_FLUTTER_GIT_DIRECTORY]**/flutter/bin"**
4. Terminate any opened terminals, open a new terminal, and run the command flutter doctor to check if Flutter is installed correctly.
5. It should show you if there are any dependencies that you need to install.