Flutter retry

I have followed the NDC conference, and recently they uploaded many new videos. It’s because Copenhagen Developer festival.

One vide caught my interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cduK6oGBMI

Seems very great, and firebase is free.

I have already know flutter in College. but it’s been years, mabye it has become better?

So let’s go:

install

I have already installed Android studio. The next is Flutter SDK and Firebase SDK. The tutorial suggests VSCode Extension, it will install Flutter automatically.

Then, flutter doctor. On Windows, it suggests install Visual Studio. I struggled, since I don’t want anything related to C++. but in the end I installed it; cost me ~30mins.

Then there are several licenses. I didn’t read carefully though; I’m unlikely to fire a law suit with Google.

Project creation

That is generally good. but many files I never see.

Debugging

Well to be precise the first is build. On windows it’s using VS.

But it cannot connect to the running application. Also the application is running.

Then the next build will complain that cannot write to file.

Well I terminated it manually. But after several retry it still cannot connect.

Chrome version also has error.

I cannot run, so let’s uninstall it.

Uninstall

Remove vscode extension. Delete flutter app. Delete Flutter SDK.

Clean Environment variables.

But SDK folder is still in use althrough it’s empty. I have to restart computer.

Conclusion

It seems very good; all platforms; good language; but in the end it’s too complex and have many environment issues.

I guess it will work better with Linux/MacOS.

BTW I also recognized that I don’t like complex IDE/SDKs. So I also uninstalled Android Studio.