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That's some admirable persistence by the author... I gave up on Flutter (for now) right after installing, having to accept (and supposedly read first) about 10 licenses during the process and then failing to start basically the default app in the Android emulator with obscure error messages. What a terrible UX developers have to put up with these days... At least it was funny to let Android Studio analyze the code (the default app), yielding these:

  FlutterBinaryMessenger.h
  Typo: In word 'FLUTTERBINARYMESSENGER'
  Typo: In word 'Implementated'
  Typo: In word 'commuication'

Doesn't look like people actually use all these features much.

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That’s weird.. aside from accepting licenses (which to me is fine), Flutter has always been a buttery smooth development process for me—much more so that trying to wrangle Xcode or Android Studio.

So, you use Flutter from some other IDE and avoid Android Studio altogether? I'll probably try that next, I just did what flutter.io suggested and didn't have any other suitable IDE or editor set up for Dart etc.:

  Flutter relies on a full installation of Android Studio to
  supply its Android platform dependencies. However, you can
  write your Flutter apps in a number of editors; a later 
  step will discuss that.

Is the general consensus that IntelliJ-based Android Studio isn't really a good choice as IDE?

I used flutter from Android Studio and from VSCode, and neither ever gave me any gruff.

I use visual studio code, it’s the editor I’m most comfortable with these days. I have android studio installed but don’t really use it except when publishing.

I had some similar initial issues getting it working (also suffered from the comedy issues with not being able to run Android Studio on modern JDK/JRE versions due to JavaFX stuff being removed).

After I'd faffed about and made it all work I must say that Flutter itself felt very nice. The hot-reload alone is enough to make you massively more productive. Dart is a perfectly reasonable language too, much nicer and better thought out than JavaScript, even with Typescript on top. Integers that are, for a start...

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