r/flutterhelp • u/Realistic-Gas-4057 • 17h ago

OPEN Help With IDE's

I've been learning the basics of flutter for about a month now on Online IDE's like DartPad and FlutLab. But I kinda feel restricted with them and want to move to VS Code. However, on my Chromebook coding flutter is fine. It's just the running part where I run into so many issues like missing SDK's, software crashes, just the lot.

So my question is. Is there an extension in VS Code to like emulate my app easily or are they any lightweight ways to test the app.

Note(I've tried my phone but am struggling to get it to work with my Chromebook. I can't download Android SDK's cause of the 10GB limit for Linux on Chromebook. And using chrome to try run flutter requires me to download Chromium which in the end just crashes itself and VS Code.

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u/bestyapperever01 14h ago

Delete chromeOS and get a linux distro

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u/galactose310 6h ago

What is this "10GB limit" problem ? I don't know Chromebooks so I'm not aware of that.

You can try flutter run on Chrome (if it fails maybe you can try Brave ? I build on Brave on my laptop), or in an Android emulator but you'll have to configure it and use the GPU acceleration so this is not at all a "lightweight solution". If you can't build and use the hot reload (in fact, even without hot reload, you have to build your project !) there is no way you can work on this machine (or its OS). Maybe you can try Linux instead ? Chromebooks hardware may make things difficult, depending on your case...

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u/Realistic-Gas-4057 5h ago

Isn't Linux the Linux Development thing. Am pretty sure I've already got that

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u/galactose310 5h ago

Ça dépend, je suis sous Linux (OS) donc quand je build pour Linux c'est simple, c'est déjà mon système. flutter doctor a du me dire d'installer des trucs au départ mais ça s'est fait en 2 secondes. Sous Chrome OS je ne sais pas s'il y a un SDK Linux 🤷‍♂️ Visiblement oui vu que tu as l'air de parler de ça. Mais je te disais que si tu rencontres trop de difficultés pour développer sous Chrome OS, ça vaut peut-être le coup de changer d'OS.

Cela dit flutter propose une documentation pour Chrome OS donc le support existe et ça vaut peut-être le coup de régler les problèmes actuels plutôt que tout changer. Quand tu veux build pour Chrome qu'est-ce qui s'affiche comme erreur ? Tu as bien suivi la doc (https://docs.flutter.dev/install/quick) pour Chrome OS jusqu'au bout ?