Install Flutnet on Windows

Installing Flutnet on your machine involves:

• installing Xamarin;
• installing Flutter;
• installing Flutnet SDK.

 

 

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Install Xamarin on Windows

 

Visual Studio 2019 Setup

Go to https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/ and download visual studio version that you prefer. In this tutorial, we install the free community edition.

After that run the installer and select the section Mobile development with .NET. The amount of space required should be 7.25 Gigabytes. After that click install. This will require some time.

When the installation finish, visual studio will request you to sign in using your Microsoft account. This is not mandatory, but to unlock all the IDE futures we will do it. You can skip this part if you want.

 

Now we go to check all the Xamarin sdk location: open Visual Studio and go to the menù:

 

There we will find:

• Java sdk location
• Android sdk location

In this configuration, we use the preinstalled Java version released with Xamarin, but you can change it with oracle or other version (remember that Flutter works only with Java 1.8 version).

 

To make sure that Xamarin and Flutter use the same java and android sdk we will set all the necessary Windows Enviroments variable using

respectively for ANDROID_HOME and JAVA_HOME. This two paths will be used during the Flutter setup process.

 

Now we check the android sdk installation. To do this we use xamarin android sdk tools. From visual studio go on the menù

 

I have installed:

• Android 9.0 Sdk
• Android 10.0 Sdk

For checking if the installation is succeeded try to compile and run an Hello World project for both Android and iOS platform.

For all the details, follow the official Xamarin guide at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/get-started/first-app/?pivots=windows.

 

The next step is to install and configure Flutter and Visual Studio Code.

 

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Install Flutter on Windows

 

System requirements

1. Windows powershell 5.0 or newer (this is preinstalled with Windows 10)
2. Git for Windows

 

Flutter setup

Download the latest flutter stable version supported by flutnet  and extract in your system.

In this guide we use C:\Sdk\flutter as Flutter setup location (replace this path with your system setup configuration).

 

Now the important part: setting all the system variables and PATH.

Go to 

 

 

 

 

 

To check if the PATH is update successfully open a new Cmd.exe and try this commands:

• flutter
• java -version
• adb

 

To check Flutter installation run flutter doctor -v

 

If you need to accepts android licenses run on Cmd.exe as administrator

flutter doctor –android-licenses  

and answer yes to all the question.

 

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Visual Studio Code Setup - Windows

 

Go to https://code.visualstudio.com/Download and install the stable version. I suggest you to install the system installer setup.

 

Open Visual Studio Code and add the Flutter extension:

 

Search for "flutter" and install it.

 

 

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Installing Flutnet SDK

First of all make sure that .NET Core 3.1 SDK is installed on your machine.

Then, download the Flutnet SDK installer from the Download page and follow the setup instructions.

Once the setup is completed, launch the Flutnet Console and create your first Flutnet App.