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Setup local environment

If you already have Flutter configured you can skip this step

Setting up your local environment

All you need is to make sure you can run Flutter apps in your machine from your shell, by flutter run inside your Flutter project as well you can also run your Flutter project inside Android Studio IDE. Since this IDE support Android process debugging.

Configuring Flutter

You should configure your Flutter local environment properly. There's several online resources can help you do that as well the official documentation:

In summary: all you need to do is to setup Android plus the Flutter binaries available globally through your CLI interface.

To ensure everything is working, type flutter doctor in your shell, you should see something like this:

Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[√] Flutter (Channel stable, 2.10.0, on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19043.1645], locale en-US)
[√] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 31.0.0)
[√] Chrome - develop for the web
[√] Visual Studio - develop for Windows (Visual Studio Build Tools 2019 16.11.13)
[√] Android Studio (version 2020.3)
[√] IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (version 2021.3)
[√] Connected device (2 available)
! Device RX8M40FQ3KF is offline.
[√] HTTP Host Availability

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