How to Get Started with Android App Development Using Flutter

In this article, we’ll actually build an Android app with Flutter while referring to the official Your first Flutter app codelab provided by Google.

The codelab guides you through creating a simple Flutter application step by step — from setting up your Flutter environment and creating a new project to building UI, handling interactions, and organizing your app’s code.

Here’s the link to the official tutorial we’ll follow:
https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/flutter-codelab-first?hl=en

Table of Contents

Set up Your Flutter environment

First, follow the instructions in the official documentation to set up the Flutter environment on your computer.

Install Visual Studio Code And Flutter SDK

By checking the page at the following link, you can see that both Visual Studio Code and the Flutter SDK need to be installed:

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/flutter-codelab-first?hl=en#1

Since Visual Studio Code is already installed on this computer, we will proceed with installing the Flutter SDK.

Clicking the Install Flutter SDK button takes you to the Flutter installation guide at the following link:

https://docs.flutter.dev/install

Since we are using Flutter in a Windows environment, select Windows on the following page and install the Flutter SDK:

https://docs.flutter.dev/install/quick

Install Visual Studio Code to use Flutter

Since Visual Studio Code is already installed on this environment, we can skip this step. However, if Visual Studio Code is not installed, you can install it from the following link:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/setup-overview

Install Git for Windows to use Flutter

In addition to Visual Studio Code, you need to install Git. Since Git is not currently installed on our Windows PC, we will install the Windows version of Git from the following link:
https://git-scm.com/install/windows