Installing Flutter without Android Studio for Windows 11
Getting Started with Flutter without Android Studio
Flutter is a development kit made by google. It’s popular among app developers. Why? Because Flutter is fast, have a lot of custom widgets, and high in performance. The question is, how do we begin building with Flutter? Let’s answer that.
Download VSCode (Visual Studio Code)
If you don’t know what Visual Studio Code is, it’s a source code editor. If you haven’t already, you should install Visual Studio Code. We will need it to get started with Flutter. Go to the Visual Studio Code website and download it.
Install Flutter SDK
Now we must install Flutter SDK. You go to the Flutter website and click on Get Started. You choose Windows where it says Choose your development platform to get started. Then you choose your type of app.
You will see that you have two options. Either you can download Flutter SDK and install it or you could use VSCode.
Downloading Flutter SDK
Once the zip file is downloaded, you would need to extract it and edit the system environment variables to include the bin directory in the extracted Flutter zip file in the path.
Installing using VSCode
Follow the instructions on the Flutter website. It will guide you on how to install Flutter SDK. But let me give you a quick overview anyway.
First, let’s open up the command palette in VSCode by pressing control + shift + P. Type in flutter then select Flutter: New Project. Click Download SDK.
For this to work, you must install the Flutter extension in VSCode.
Install Android Studio’s Command Line Tools Only
Next, Install the Android Studio’s command line tools. go to the Android Studio download page and scroll down to where it says command line tools only. Here’s a picture of that:
Download the zip file, then extract it. Once extracted, find the bin directory and edit your system environment variables to include the bin directory in the path.
Finished Result
After you are done, when you run your flutter project, it should look like this:
And that’s how you install flutter without Android Studio for windows 11. If you liked this article, make sure to clap. Respond if you have any questions.
Happy Coding!
