Flutter installation and set up in a few steps (Windows) — For newbies
In this article, I drop what you need to know as a Flutter newbie. First, let’s look at why you should learn Flutter as a developer.
What is Flutter, Why Flutter, and Dart
Flutter is a toolkit built by Google to create beautiful android and iOS user interfaces. In early times mobile application developers had to develop android and iOS applications separately. They had to put unnecessary effort to provide their mobile applications to both android and apple users. Another tribulation they came across with is the massive divergence in the screen sizes. If we consider Apple phones, they have different series coming from different screen sizes. On the other hand, more than dozens of android brands are available in the market and hundreds of screen sizes. So always developing mobile applications became a real dilemma. Google launched the Flutter toolkit to create awesome UIs which is handy for mobile application developers. Comparatively to other mobile application platforms, Flutter is a very effective and easy cross-platform which can develop by one codebase.
Flutter uses Dart programming language which is developed by Google. Dart is mostly effortless to learn and is a more likely modern object-oriented programming languages. After all Google itself uses Dart and we can, of course, keep our trust in Dart as a stable language which is going to improve more and more.
Flutter gives you lots of flexibility and user-friendly in developing mobile applications. You are not required to wait until code saving, app running, and compiling to see the changes you made in the interface. Just a single “Save” and you can instantly see it all in the interfaces.
In the Flutter platform, developers can see the original source code which is implemented by the original development team and customize it or entirely change it as their wish. Additionally, people who are learning mobile application development can understand how components are implemented and work which helps newbies to dive deep into mobile application development.
Flutter Installation and setup
Let’s start our journey on Flutter. Always make sure to download setup files from the official website for virus-free installation. Since Flutter has a well-prepared document the installation and setup are very easy. Here I present to the steps you will be needed to get Flutter on your PC. Click here for Flutter installation.
- Select OS on your PC
I choose Windows to exhibit to you how to setup Flutter.
2. Some requirements should be fulfilled in order to install and run Flutter
i) OS should be Windows 7 SP1 or later (64-bit), 86–64 based
ii) Disk space should be 1.32GB
iii) Windows PowerShell 5.0 or newer
iv) Git for Windows 2.x
3. After verifying all the above requirements are fulfilled, you can download the Flutter setup.
Click here to do the download latest and stable version. (You can download the setup from Flutter official site)
4. Thereafter, the downloaded zip file should be extracted and executed. Flutter is installed on your PC !!
5. Now you should set the Flutter path.
i) Visit the location where Flutter is installed
ii) Go to the bin folder in the Flutter folder and copy the path
iii) Open the Edit environmental variables window and add the copied path under User variables.
Here you completed Flutter installation and set up in your PC. Visit the Flutter official site for more clarification.
Th the is end of the article. I hope this will be helpful for Flutter newbies.
Thank You!!
