Developing a Flutter app is made easy with a variety of IDEs. Depending on your requirements and application publish platform(mobile/window/web/desktop etc), you can select the IDE that best suits your needs. It’s important to choose that is commonly used in your workspace or in your team, that enhances your development process.
- Visual Studio Code (VS Code): [ Good for Flutter Web Applications and Desktop also Android App]
- VS Code is a popular code editor widely used for Flutter development.
- It offers a rich set of Flutter extensions, such as Dart support, Flutter IntelliSense, and Flutter Widget Snippets.
- VS Code provides a seamless development experience with features like code completion, debugging, and integrated terminal.
- Download Link : https://code.visualstudio.com/
- Android Studio: [ Good for Flutter Android, Web Applications and Desktop]
- Android Studio is a powerful integrated development environment (IDE) for Android and Flutter development.
- It provides extensive Flutter support, including a visual UI designer, code editor, and debugging tools.
- Android Studio offers features like hot reload, which allows you to quickly see the changes made to your code in real-time.
- Download Link:- https://developer.android.com/studio
Note : Flutter is a cross-platform framework, you can use the above IDE to build applications for any platform. However, please note that for publishing or testing build Flutter applications for iOS, you will need Xcode and a macOS system.-
For small testing logic of Dart code, you can utilize the following online editor.–
DartPad:
- DartPad is an online code editor provided by Dart, the programming language used in Flutter.
- It allows you to write and run Dart code directly in your web browser without setting up a local development environment.
- DartPad is useful for quickly testing small code snippets, experimenting with Flutter widgets, and sharing code samples.
- Link https://dartpad.dev/?
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