Install Flutter

Follow instructions from https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install/linux/android

• Download the flutter_*.tar.xz archive
• Unpack the archive into $HOME/.local/bin (creates $HOME/.local/bin/flutter/bin)
  At first I tried putting this at /usr/bin, but that caused invisible errors in coc-flutter as it couldn’t access the path properly to find the Flutter SDK
• Add the new path as above to $PATH eg in ~/.profile

# ~/.profile
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin/flutter/bin:$PATH"

Agree to more licenses and get Flutter doctor to pass

First, agree to several laughably long licence agreements which Google knows full well that nobody reads.

flutter doctor --android-licenses

Then type Y and Enter for each prompt

Now run flutter doctor. It should pass every test except ‘Android Studio (not installed)’. If so, we’re ready to start building Flutter apps (with Android Studio not installed).

Sample project

You can make a really simple sample project to check that everything’s installed correctly and see how it works.

flutter create sample-project

This will create a sample-project directory with a Flutter app in it, a simple built-in demo of a button which counts up as you tap it.

To run the app:

cd sample-project
flutter run