Configs

Flutter, Android Studio 

Assuming you have Java set up. If you haven’t, you can refer the Java setup page

Installing Android Studio

The most convenient way to install and manage JetBrains IDEs like Android Studio, IntelliJ is via their JetBrains Toolbox app. It makes it easier to update/downgrade versions of your various JetBrains IDEs as well as see all your projects for those IDEs in one place

• Download the Toolbox tarball (.tar.gz) for Linux from their downloads. It contains the jetbrains-toolbox AppImage file. Extract contents of the tarball into ~/Applications folder:

  # Create the Applications folder if it doesn't exist
  mkdir -p ~/Applications
  # Extract contents (AppImage) from tarball and copy to that folder
  tar xf ~/Downloads/jetbrains-toolbox*.tar.gz -C ~/Applications
  

• Go to the ~/Applications folder from File Explorer. Double click on the jetbrains-toolbox AppImage file. Accept terms and select Android Studio to install. It should automatically download, install, configure Android Studio IDE as well as create a Desktop entry. The JetBrains Toolbox app installs IDEs in the ~/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/ folder

• The wizard will install: Android SDK, Android Platform, Android Virtual Device (AVD)

  • The Android SDK is installed within ~/Android/Sdk/ folder
  • By default, Android Studio stores all user settings in ~/.config/Google/AndroidStudio2023.3/ and uses ~/.local/share/Google/AndroidStudio2023.3/ for cache data

• Install the Dart and Flutter plugins available for Android Studio and restart the IDE

• If you wish to be able to launch Android Studio from terminal via studio as well as the platform tools like adb, fastboot etc., add them to your PATH in the Shell profile file (~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc):

  export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/android-studio/bin
  export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Android/Sdk/platform-tools
  

  After saving, restart your Shell to load changes: exec $(which $SHELL)

Installing Flutter

Following the official Flutter Linux installation docs:

• Install the Flutter extension in VSCode. It will prompt you to locate the Flutter SDK. Since you don’t have an existing Flutter SDK, select Download SDK. You can set the install location to something like ~/FlutterSdk

• Now, the latest Flutter SDK will be downloaded into ~/FlutterSdk/flutter/ folder.

  • If you want a specific Flutter SDK version, you’ll have to download it from their SDK Archive and extract it into desired location via tar -cJf ~/Downloads/flutter_linux*.tar.xz YOUR_LOCATION

• Add the location of Flutter SDK’s binaries (like flutter, dart) to your PATH by adding these lines in your Shell config file (~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc):

  export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/FlutterSdk/flutter/bin
  

  Now restart your shell: exec $(which $SHELL)

• Install the Linux toolchain packages:

  # For Ubuntu/Debian (apt):
  sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get upgrade -y;
  sudo apt-get install -y curl git zip unzip xz-utils \
    clang cmake ninja-build pkg-config libgtk-3-dev libglu1-mesa \
    libc6:amd64 libstdc++6:amd64 libbz2-1.0:amd64 libncurses5:amd64
  
  
  # Equivalent packages for Fedora (dnf):
  sudo dnf up -y
  sudo dnf install -y curl git zip unzip xz-devel \
    clang cmake ninja-build pkgconf-pkg-config gtk3-devel mesa-libGLU \
    glibc libstdc++ bzip2-libs ncurses-libs
  

• Install the latest Android cmdline-tools:

  • Open Android Studio
  • In the New Project startup, select More Actions > SDK Manager > Android SDK > SDK Tools > Android SDK Command-line Tools (latest)
  • Hit Apply

• Accept Android licenses:

  # Enter `y` to agree for each prompt
  flutter doctor --android-licenses
  

• Disable analytics (optional):

  flutter config --disable-analytics
  dart --disable-analytics
  

• Finally, check the flutter doctor -v output. It should contain all tickmarks and look like:

  [✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.24.4, on Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition) 6.11.5-200.fc40.x86_64, locale en_US.UTF-8)
      • Flutter version 3.24.4 on channel stable at /home/kumar/FlutterSdk/flutter
      • Upstream repository https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
      • Framework revision 603104015d (7 days ago), 2024-10-24 08:01:25 -0700
      • Engine revision db49896cf2
      • Dart version 3.5.4
      • DevTools version 2.37.3
  
  [✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 35.0.0)
      • Android SDK at /home/kumar/Android/Sdk
      • Platform android-35, build-tools 35.0.0
      • Java binary at: /home/kumar/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/android-studio/jbr/bin/java
      • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 21.0.3+-12282718-b509.11)
      • All Android licenses accepted.
  
  [✓] Chrome - develop for the web
      • Chrome at google-chrome
  
  [✓] Linux toolchain - develop for Linux desktop
      • clang version 18.1.8 (Fedora 18.1.8-1.fc40)
      • cmake version 3.28.2
      • ninja version 1.12.1
      • pkg-config version 2.1.1
  
  [✓] Android Studio (version 2024.2)
      • Android Studio at /home/kumar/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps/android-studio
      • Flutter plugin version 82.0.3
      • Dart plugin can be installed from:
        🔨 https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6351-dart
      • Java version OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 21.0.3+-12282718-b509.11)
  
  [✓] VS Code (version 1.94.2)
      • VS Code at /usr/share/code
      • Flutter extension version 3.98.0
  
  [✓] Connected device (2 available)
      • Linux (desktop) • linux  • linux-x64      • Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition) 6.11.5-200.fc40.x86_64
      • Chrome (web)    • chrome • web-javascript • Google Chrome 130.0.6723.69
  
  [✓] Network resources
      • All expected network resources are available.
  
  • No issues found!
  

• When you create new Flutter project in Android Studio, select the Flutter SDK path as ~/FlutterSdk/flutter

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Enable VM acceleration (optional but recommended)

Linux-based systems support virtual machine acceleration via KVM (Kernel-based VM) package. Referring the official Android Developer docs to Configure hardware acceleration for the Android Emulator

The Configure VM acceleration on Linux section only mentions how to do it for Ubuntu/Debian based distros. You can also refer Ubuntu’s KVM installation docs. However, for Fedora in my case, I’m referring the Fedora Quick Docs page for Virtualization:

• Check that your CPU supports virtualization:

  # Check "Virtualization" section of output. Mine said "AMD-V"
  lscpu
  # It should print a bunch of flags
  grep -E '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
  

• View available packages in the virtualization package group:

  dnf groupinfo virtualization
  

  It’s output would contain:

  Group: Virtualization
  Description: These packages provide a graphical virtualization environment.
  Mandatory Packages:
    virt-install
  Default Packages:
    libvirt-daemon-config-network
    libvirt-daemon-kvm
    qemu-kvm
    virt-manager
    virt-viewer
  Optional Packages:
    guestfs-tools
    python3-libguestfs
    virt-top
  

• To install the mandatory, default and optional packages:

  sudo dnf group install --with-optional virtualization
  

• Start and enable the libvirtd service to load on boot:

  sudo systemctl start libvirtd
  sudo systemctl enable libvirtd
  

• Verify that the KVM kernel modules are properly loaded:

  lsmod | grep kvm
  

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Upgrading Flutter

Referring the Flutter docs:

# Upgrading Flutter SDK
flutter upgrade

# Identify out-of-date package dependencies and get advice on updating them
flutter pub outdated

# Update to the latest compatible versions of all the dependencies in pubspec.yaml
flutter pub upgrade