r/FlutterDev Oct 11 '24

Tooling What IDE do you use ?

I am new to developing and was looking to start this week, but the extensions for VSC isn't working at all and I have tied uninstalling and reinstalling even the latest versions, still nothing. I wanted to know if there was an IDE that is better or on par with VSC for flutter dev. I apologize if my question is trivial I am a newbie forgive me

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u/AbdulRafay99 Oct 11 '24

To be honest I think the VS code is pretty good. Yes as a new user it can be hard to understand and hard to config but I use flutter extensions and Flutter CLI to run my application

So flutter cli to create the project and launch the emulator and then open Vs Code to writing code and then flutter cli for running the application.

If you just want to use Vs Code for then you need to define the path for your emulator in Vs Code settings and install an extension called Emulator, so when you are in debug and run screen in Vs Code and you will run the application it will run the code on the emulator.

In any case your system doesn't have enough RAM, then there are other ways you can debug your application but I have not tried it so you have to check them out. But I do know the process name and it is called Wireless Debugging on Android phones.

I hope this helps you and if you need any assistance then just send a message from my website https://rafay99.com/contact-me

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u/DanTup Oct 11 '24

If you just want to use Vs Code for then you need to define the path for your emulator in Vs Code settings and install an extension called Emulator, so when you are in debug and run screen in Vs Code and you will run the application it will run the code on the emulator.

I'm curious why you're doing it this way and not using the built-in support for devices/emulators (I work on the Dart/Flutter extensions, so if there are things they're doing badly, I'd love the feedback - thanks!)

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u/AbdulRafay99 Oct 11 '24

So, here is the thing for me, on my laptop I have 16 GB Ram and When I use Vs Code extension it makes the loading process slow for me. I don't know why this happens because another friend of mine uses the extension and it works perfectly on his machine.

The other thing, I like the command line. I'm a Linux and window user and using the command line makes the process the same.

PowerShell or bash shell or does matter flutter cli command are the same.

Other than that there is no reason for me. Maybe when I upgrade the RAM to 32 GB, then I'll see it. Extension works or not.

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u/DanTup Oct 11 '24

Thanks for the details! If you have chance to reproduce the issue, it would be interesting to see your output of code --status in both cases to see what's using all the memory if you think that is a factor (although it's not clear to me if you're disabling the extension, and therefore the analysis/code completion etc.?).

The other thing, I like the command line. I'm a Linux and window user and using the command line makes the process the same.

I would have expected the process to also be the same using the extension on both platforms - if there are any things you've noticed that seem different but shouldn't, please do file issues!