Manually installing the Flutter development environment on MacOS.
The official documentation for installing the Flutter development environment is very clear. However, it requires the installation of the large Android Studio software. I prefer to use the lightweight VSCode tool for development, so I have compiled a guide on how to install and configure the Flutter development environment without installing Android Studio.
Prepare java envrioment
Download jdk from https://adoptium.net/temurin/archive/ . unzip to ~/apps/jdk dir.
Set Java env
1JAVA_HOME=~/apps/jdk/Contents/Home 2PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH:. 3CLASSPATH=$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/dt.jar:. 4 5PATH=~/apps/flutter/bin:$PATH 6 7export JAVA_HOME 8export PATH 9export CLASSPATH Download flutter sdk
1cd apps 2git clone git@github.com:flutter/flutter.git Download Command line tools from android developer site https://developer.android.com/studio#command-tools . unzip and cd to cmdline-tools/bin
1mkdir ~/apps/android-sdk 2./sdkmanager --sdk_root=/Uers/youname/apps/android-sdk "cmdline-tools;latest" Create android home directory
1mkdir ~/apps/android-home Config .zshrc (if you use bash then Config .bashrc file)
1ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=~/apps/android-sdk 2CMDLINE_TOOLS_HOME=$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/latest 3FLUTTER_HOME=~/apps/flutter 4PATH=$CMDLINE_TOOLS_HOME/bin:$PATH 5PATH=$FLUTTER_HOME/bin:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/emulator:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/platform-tools:$PATH 6 7ANDROID_SDK_HOME=~/apps/android-home 8export ANDROID_SDK_HOME 9 10export PATH 1flutter channel stable Install SDK Package
1# install emulator 2sdkmanager --install "emulator" 3 4# install platform-tools 5sdkmanager --install "platform-tools" Check install
1➜ ~ sdkmanager --version 29.0 3 4➜ ~ emulator -version 5INFO | Android emulator version 32.1.13.0 (build_id 10086546) (CL:N/A) 6... 7 8➜ ~ adb version 9Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.41 10Version 34.0.3-10161052 11Installed as ... 12 13➜ ~ fastboot --version 14fastboot version 34.0.3-10161052 15Installed as ... SDK install and update
1➜ ~ sdkmanager --list 2[=======================================] 100% Computing updates... 3Installed packages: 4 Path | Version | Description | Location 5 ------- | ------- | ------- | ------- 6 cmdline-tools;latest | 9.0 | Android SDK Command-line Tools (latest) | cmdline-tools/latest 7 emulator | 32.1.13 | Android Emulator | emulator 8 patcher;v4 | 1 | SDK Patch Applier v4 | patcher/v4 9 platform-tools | 34.0.3 | Android SDK Platform-Tools | platform-tools Other Command
1sdkmanager --update 2sdkmanager --uninstall Install build-tools
1sdkmanager --install "build-tools;31.0.0" "platforms;android-31" Install simulator images
1sdkmanager --install "system-images;android-31;default;x86_64" Print device list
1avdmanager list device Create simulator
1$ avdmanager create avd --name android-31-default --package "system-images;android-31;default;x86_64" --device "pixel_6_pro" 2Do you wish to create a custom hardware profile? [no] You can write by short param: -n replace --name, -k replace --package, eg: avdmanager create avd -n android-31-default -k "system-images;android-31;default;x86_64"
Check simulator
1avdmanager list avd Run simulator
1# Command help: 'emulator -avd $AVD_NAME' or '$ emulator @AVD_NAME' 2emulator -avd android-31-default Install CocoaPods
1brew install cocoapods Set flutter android sdk directory
1flutter config --android-sdk=~/apps/android-sdk Accept android licenses
1flutter doctor --android-licenses Check flutter envrioment
1➜ ~ flutter doctor 2Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v): 3[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.10.3, on macOS 12.5 21G72 darwin-x64, locale en-US) 4[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 31.0.0) 5[✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 14.2) 6[✓] Chrome - develop for the web 7[!] Android Studio (not installed) 8[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition (version 2022.3) 9[✓] VS Code (version 1.78.2) 10[✓] Connected device (2 available) 11[✓] Network resources 12 13! Doctor found issues in 1 category.