Flutter Installation and First App

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Let's start developing our application by setting up Flutter. Here's a reminder of what we are going to build:

Installing Flutter

First, we need to install Flutter. The installation instructions are on the official Flutter website.

In our case, we chose the following installation method:

• MacOS - since we are using a Mac.
• Android - for more straightforward setup and testing.

Then, you have two choices - VS Code or Android Studio. We chose VS Code as it was recommended by the Flutter team:

Once everything is installed, you can run the following command to check if everything is set up correctly:

flutter doctor

Here's what we got:

Even with a few issues, we were able to work with Flutter. So don't worry if you have some licenses missing or other issues.

Note: When developing on Linux/Windows, you will not see the iOS-related issues. iOS development requires a Mac (there's no clean way around it).

Setting up Virtual Devices

Before we start developing...