The you have to select the version of Android you want to run in your hardware. I selected a Pixel 2 since it doesn't require a lot of resources from my computer. The first question you get, is the type of hardware you want to emulate. So fire up Android Studio if you haven't already, and in the greetings window, select Configure > AVD Manager.
The development kit to use for the Android version. Which version of Android to run inside the virtual device. The actual hardware you want to emulate. This is not as straight forward as with the iOS one, since there are a lot of options when creating your simulator for Android: With Android studio installed, you need to create an AVD or simulator to test your apps. Configure a Android Virtual Device or AVD This can take a loooong time, since Android Studio it's even bigger that Xcode. 
Execute flutter doctor to make sure everything works. Add the $FLUTTER_HOME/bin to your path $FLUTTER_HOME is the dir where the flutter repo got stored, in my case ~/Projects/flutter/. Clone the stable branch of the git repo. Go to the parent dir where you want to install flutter. This means that the file ~/Projects/flutter/bin/flutter is going to be my main tool to create new flutter projects, run apps inside a simulators and compile apps for distribution. In my case I selected ~/Projects/flutter/. You have to select a place in your hard drive where you want to store the flutter repo. The added bonus of using git, is that the upgrade process, when new versions of flutter come out, is more straight forward.īut before we do that. which is great since there is no need to download special apps, IDEs, tools, etc. The flutter development environment is distributed as source code directly from github. The Xcode is a big download (about 2 Gigs) and a long installation depending on your computer, so in the meantime we can install the flutter SDK. So open the App Store app in your mac, search for Xcode, and click on download. So, if you want to develop iOS applications you can't get around installing Xcode. In case you don't know, Xcode is the official Apple tool to develop for Mac and iOS. Configure a Android Virtual Device or AVD.
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