28 Days Of Flutter Bootcamp 🕑 - Day 2 - Creating A New Flutter Project And Setup Physical Device And Emulator

Welcome to Flutter Bootcamp’s second session. In this day, you will learn how to set up physical device and emulator, and how to create a new empty flutter project and folder structure of Flutter.

Let’s start with creating a new Flutter project.

Step 1

Fire up Android Studio and Select an option “Start a new Flutter project”

Step 2

As we are going to create an end-user application, select “Flutter Application” and “Next” button.

• Flutter Application
  When you want to develop an end-user Android or iOS mobile application.

• Flutter Plugins
  When exposing an Android or iOS API for developers, in sort if you want to make native functionality for Flutter.

• Flutter Package
  When you want to create a widget using pure dart programming.

• Flutter Module
  When creating a Flutter component to add to your application.

• Project Name
  Name of your project

• Flutter SDK path
  This is the folder path where we put the flutter SDK earlier

• Project Location
  This part tells you where your project gone be saved

• Description
  About text for your application

Step 4

Set the package information

• Package name
  It helps to create a package name by combining the company domain and name of your project for unique identification. Play store can identify unique app with this package name.

You can find some piece of starting code. This code is created by the Flutter team and all it does a simple counting application. Before starting to development first, we need to connect the physical or virtual device for testing and debugging purpose. Android studio provides us with a feature for running app on a physical device or virtual device (emulator).

Before starting make sure that we have pre-installed all drivers.

Step 1

Open SDK Manager (Tools > SDK Manager) and check that you have installed below required things.

• SDK Platforms > One of the SDK Platforms.

• SDK Tools > Android SDK Build-Tools

• SDK Tools > Google USB Driver

• SDK Tools > Android SDK Tools

• SDK Tools > Android Emulator

Step 2

Open AVD Manager (Tools > AVD Manager)

Click on “+ Create Virtual Device…”

Select your preferred device and then click on “Next”

Select your preferred system image and click on “Next” and then click on “Finish”. I suggest to chose x86 Images for fast performance on testing and debugging.

Now, click on lunch icon to start your created emulator.