Do I need to have Android Studio for building flutter apps?

Question

For some reason, Android Studio is slow on my computer. I got other text editors as well. But what are my solutions? I am looking forward to learn mobile app development. Any suggestions are appreciated..

Answer 1

You can use flutter run or flutter build apk from the flutter commandline (run flutter_console.bat in your installation directory on windows).

If you use VS Code, you can easily install the flutter extension and run your app with the press of a button or (Ctrl+Shift+D). Or press Ctrl+Shift+D and type flutter: in order to see the available options (eg create a new project).