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Dev setup

For general instructions on setting up to do development on this app, see the README.

This file covers specific topics in more detail.

Android without Android Studio

The standard Flutter installation guide calls for installing Android Studio in order to build for Android. This is the recommended option where possible; but for use cases like building the app on a remote server in the cloud, you may want to set things up without Android Studio.

To set up the development environment on Linux without Android Studio:

  1. Follow the Flutter installation guide, up until the step calling for Android Studio.

  2. Install Java, specifically JDK 17 (or later?): sudo apt install openjdk-17-jdk

  3. Install the Android SDK. This might look like the following:

        # Download Android SDK cmdline-tools: https://developer.android.com/studio#command-line-tools-only
$ curl -LO https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-linux-11076708_latest.zip
$ mkdir -p ~/Android/Sdk/cmdline-tools/latest
$ unzip commandlinetools-linux-11076708_latest.zip -d ~/Android/Sdk/cmdline-tools/latest
$ mv ~/Android/Sdk/cmdline-tools/latest/cmdline-tools/* ~/Android/Sdk/cmdline-tools/latest
$ rmdir ~/Android/Sdk/cmdline-tools/latest/cmdline-tools
    # Add "$HOME/Android/Sdk/cmdline-tools/latest/bin" to PATH.
    # Set environment variable ANDROID_HOME to "$HOME/Android/Sdk".
$ sdkmanager platform-tools

  4. Resume following the Flutter installation guide starting from the step after installing Android Studio. Use the Flutter main channel, just like in our standard setup instructions.

  5. Build the app with flutter build apk or flutter build apk --debug, and download the resulting APK file to your local machine. Then use adb install (see adb help for help) to install it on either a physical or emulated device, and run it.

    (Have you tried setting things up so that you can use flutter run on the remote machine, and get hot reload? If so, we'd be glad to hear instructions for it; please start a thread in our #mobile-dev-help channel, or send a PR.)