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Setting up flutter without Android studio

Jayesh Kale on September 17, 2019

Sometimes due the hardware constraints or some other reasons developer will prefer light weight solution rather than Big Bulky Android Studio. So h...

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oneohthree • Dec 2 '19

Nice and concise article.

This line: $ sudo mv gradle/ opt/ should read: $ sudo mv gradle/ /opt/.

Jayesh Kale • Jan 29 '20

yeah forgot to mention that thanks for help.

José Donato • Jan 27 '20

good article :D

the line sdkamanger "platform-tools" has a typo --> sdkmanager

Jayesh Kale • Jan 30 '20

yeah corrected it.👍

Kayalla • Jan 16 '20

Worked fine for me, thanks!
Besides noticed that the "$" is missing in variable GRADLE_HOME at "export PATH=GRADLE_HOME/bin:$PATH".

axmedbadal • Feb 10 '20

bro thank you in advance
but i have this little small issue will following along your post

sdkmanager "system-images;android-29;google_apis;x86_64"

ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: path_to_java_home

Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
location of your Java installation.

please respond asp

Jayesh Kale • Feb 16 '20

can you check your java home path where it is installed.

Novian Kristianto • Apr 12 '20

I have downloaded the sdk-tools-linux-4333796.zip, and I can't find the platform-tools directory inside. I'm running on arch-linux

Jayesh Kale • Apr 17 '20 • Edited

you won't find platform tools inside it directly.. you have to install it using command -> sdkmanager "platform-tools"

Kingsley Manzeke • Apr 17 '20 • Edited

If anyone else is trying to executing that code and geting 'Warning: Failed to read or create install properties file.'

Go here askubuntu.com/questions/1227439/18...

Lucas Eduardo Correa de Souza • Mar 4 '20

Hi, you save my journey to learn flutter. I got and issue with sdk trying to use flutter and Android Studio on ubuntu. Now i can learn thanks to your tutorial. So i join the community to say thanks.