Android Studio is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), like Visual Studio.We will install successively each of the coloured boxes that compose the Flutter development environment shown in the Title image. It also has work-arounds to address the imperfect state of the tools, at the date of April 2022. This tutorial contains explanations to better understand the purpose of each step. This understanding is useful as early as when installing Flutter, and is indispensable when packaging the apps for public submission to Play Store and App Store. Because Flutter generates code that is compatible with Android and iOS, the Flutter programmer needs to have some knowledge of both development environments.The documentation is not always up to date. Flutter is changing quickly to catch up with the rapid evolution of macOS.Apple plans to replace by 2022 all the Intel-based line of products (X86_64) with ARM64-based machines. Macintosh M1 is the new generation of Apple computers using ARM64 chips.It is used to develop applications for Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Windows, Google Fuchsia (future Google's smartphone OS, after Android and Chrome OS) and the web, using a single codebase. Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google.To install Flutter on other platforms, I recommend the e-book TLDR (Too Long Didn’t Read) Part 3 covers the installation of Flutter itself in Android Studio, along with housekeeping best practices.Part 2 guides the installation of the 2 IDE Xcode and Android Studio.

Part 1, this document, presents the general view of the components that are installed and shows how the install the indispensable preparation tools.

Kudos and thanks to the Ray Wenderlich team.

Update of September 19, 2022: The updated version for Flutter 3.3 is here.

It helps debugging of installation and development errors, and makes easier the transition to free hands-on Flutter programming courses such as this –highly recommended– book Flutter Apprentice ( ).

The added-value of this step-by-step tutorial is that (1) all steps have been tested on a clean install and (2) the reason of each step is explained along with its role in the big picture. There are many tutorials how to install Flutter on a Mac with the M1 chip.

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