An Opinionated Way To Install The Flutter SDK

Fred Grott
8 min readAug 26, 2021

Want more power to get full test coverage, full code feedback, and all the bells and whistles of flutter front-end development? You have to beyond just a simple flutter SDK install.

Let me not only show you how to do this more extensive Flutter SDK install, but show you specific tricks that work with all SDKs that you may use in the present and the future.

Installing Git

You will need git to commit code to a git provider. Plus, if you test app code against the Dev channel there are times when you may clone the flutter git repo and test against that; so ye you do need to have Git installed for your desktop platform.

For the Unix like platforms, It’s using the package manager and simply installing the git package. Native MS Windows you need to install the git for windows edition of git as it provides additional extensions for explorer and the bash shell.

Just download the installer and run it.

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