This article, I am sharing the installation of Flutter on your local computer in detail. here is an easy way to Flutter – Installation for Mobile App development in your System like Windows and macOS.

Flutter – Installation in Windows

System requirements

To install and run Flutter, your device meets these minimum requirements for the development environment and developer App :

• Operating Systems: Windows 7 or later (64-bit)
• Disk Space: 400 MB (not include disk space for IDE/tools).
• Tools: Flutter depends on these tools being available in your environment.
  • Windows PowerShell 5.0 or newer (this is pre-installed with Windows 10)
  • Git for Windows 2.x, with the Use Git from the Windows Command Prompt option.

    If Git for Windows is already installed, make sure you can run git commands from the command prompt or PowerShell.

In this section, let us see how to install Flutter SDK and its requirement in a windows system.
Step 1:  Click on download the latest Flutter SDK https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/windows the file is flutter_windows_v1.12.13-stable.zip.

Step 2:  Unzip the zip archive in a folder, say C:\flutter\

Step 3:  Update the system path flutter bin directory.

Step 4:  Flutter provides, flutter doctor to check that all the requirement of flutter development is met.

Step 5:  Running the above command to analyze the system and showing its report like this,
Doctor Details ( run flutter doctor and to see all details): # Flutter (Channel stable, v1.2.1, on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.706], locale en-US) # Android toolchain – develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 28.0.3) [√] Android Studio (version 3.2) # VS Code, 64-bit edition (version 1.29.1) [!] Connected device! No devices available! Doctor found issues in 1 category.

The report says that all development tools are available but the device is not connected. We can fix this by connecting an android device through USB or starting an android emulator.

Step 6: Android SDK  latest Install.

Step 7: Android Studio latest Install.

Step 8: Start an android emulator or connect a real android device to the system.

Step 9: Install Flutter Dart plugin for Android Studio. It provides startup template to create new Flutter applications, an option to run and debug Flutter application in the Android studio.

After  installation  

1.  Open Android Studio.
2.  Click File > Settings > Plugins.
3.  Select the Flutter plugin and click Install.
4.  Click Yes when prompted to install the Dart plugin.
5.  Restart Android studio.

Flutter – Installation in macOS

System requirements

To install and run Flutter, your development environment must meet these minimum requirements:

• Operating Systems: macOS (64-bit)
• Disk Space: 2.8 GB (does not include disk space for IDE/tools).
• Tools: Flutter depends on these command-line tools being available in your environment.
  • bash
  • curl
  • git 2.x
  • mkdir
  • rm
  • unzip
  • which

To install Flutter in your Macbook OS, you can follow the following steps for Install to easy way:

Step 1:  Go to URL, https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/macos and download the latest Flutter SDK. As of Jan 2020, the version is 1.12.13 and the file is flutter_macos_v1.12.13stable.zip.

Step 2:  First of unzip the zip archive in a folder, according to say /path/to/flutter

Step 3:  Update the system path to include flutter bin directory (in ~/.bashrc file).
> export PATH=”$PATH:/path/to/flutter/bin”

Step 4:  Enable the updated path in the current session using the below command and then verify it as well.
source ~/.bashrc source $HOME/.bash_profile echo $PATH
Flutter provide a tool, flutter doctor to check the all the requirement of flutter development. It is similar to the Windows counterpart.
Step 5:  After Setup Install latest XCode according to flutter doctor .

Step 6:  Then Install the latest Android SDK, according to flutter doctor.

Step 7:  Install the latest Android Studio, if reported flutter doctor.

Step 8: Start an android emulator or connect a real android device to the system to develop an android application.

Step 9:  Open iOS simulator or connect a real iPhone device to the system to develop iOS applications.

Step 10: Install Flutter Dart plugin for Android Studio. It provides the startup template for create a new Flutter applications, option to run and debug the application in the Android studio,

1. Open Android Studio.
2.  Click Preferences > Plugins.
3.  Select the Flutter plugin and click Install.
4.  Click Yes when prompted to install the Dart plugin.
5.  Restart Android studio.