How to set up devices for VS Code for a Flutter emulator

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I d like to use VS Code as my editor for Flutter development  but I don t know how to get the emulator going  I ve installed VS Code on Ubuntu 17 10  I followed the first half of instructions as outlined on the Flutter  Get Started page  Create new app   Then I ran into trouble in the second half   Run the app  Make sure a target device is selected in the lower  right-hand corner of VS Code Press the F5 button on the keyboard  or invoke Debug gt Start Debugging Wait for the app to launch If everything works  after the app has been built  you should see your starter app on your device or simulator    The problem is that in that bottom right-hand corner is  quot No Devices  quot  How do I connect a device  I can t seem to find instructions anywhere

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To select a device you must first start both  android studio and your virtual device  Then visual studio code will display that virtual device as an option

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You do not need to create a virtual device using android studio  You can use your android device running on android 8 0 or higher  All you have to do is to activate developer settings  then enable USB DEBUGGING in the developer settings  Your device will show at the bottom right side of the VS Code  Without enabling the USB debugging  the device may not show enter image description here

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You can connect an Android Phone via USB cable and then it will show the device in the bottom bar  Please note ADB must be installed  Click here for more   Or you can completely install Android Studio and setup emulator from there and run the emulator  Then VS Code will recogzine the emulator and show at the bottom bar

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You do not need Android Studio to create or run a Virtual Device  Just use sdkmanager and avdmanager from the android sdk tools   Use the sdkmanager to download a system image of Android for x86 system  e g  sdkmanager  system-images android-21 default x86 64   Then create a new virtual device using avdmanager  e g  avdmanager create avd --name AndroidDevice01 --package  system-images android-21 default x86 64   Then run the new virtual device using emulator  If you don t have it just install it using the sdkmanager  e g  emulator -avd AndroidDevice01  If you restart VSCode and load your Flutter project  The new device should show up at the bottom right of the footer

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VS Code needs to know where Android SDK is installed on your system  On Windows  set  ANDROID SDK ROOT  environment variable to the Android SDK root folder   Plus  Always check the  OUTPUT  and  DEBUG CONSOLE  tabs for errors and information

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First  You have to install the Android Studio and Xcode to create phone emulator   In VSCode you can use the Android IOS Emulator plugin to set the path of emulator to run

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For those people using a Mac you can go to your terminal and type     open -a Simulator app   and this command will open the simulator    After that  just go to the Debug option and tap on  Start Debugging     If you want to test with an Android Emulator   What I did was to go first to Android Studio and open a virtual Device with AVD Manager  After that you ll see another devices in your Visual Studio Code    In the bottom right you ll see now that you have 2 devices connected  Now  you can test with any of this devices

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Genymotion settings - gt  Select ADB Tab - gt  Select  Use custom Android SDK tools - gt  Add Android SDK Path  Ex  C  Users randika AppData Local Android sdk

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Recently i switched from Windows 10 home to Elementary OS  vscode didn t start from ctr shift p launch emulator instead of that  i just clicked bottom right corner no device--- gt  Start emulator worked fine

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From version 2 13 0 of Dart Code  emulators can be launched directly from within Code but This feature relies on support from the Flutter tools which means it will only show emulators when using a very recent Flutter SDK  Flutter   s master channel already has this change  but it may take a little longer to filter through to the dev and beta channels   I tested this feature and worked very well on flutter version 0 5 6-pre 61  master channel

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For me  when I was running  quot flutter doctor quot  command from Ubuntu Command line - It showed me below error       Android toolchain - develop for Android devices   Unable to locate Android SDK   From this error  it is obvious that  quot flutter doctor quot  was not able to find the  quot android sdk quot  and the reason for that was my android sdk was downloaded in a custom location on my Ubuntu machine  So we must need to tell  quot flutter doctor quot  about this custom android location  using below command  flutter config --android-sdk  home myhome Downloads softwares android-sdk   Need to replace  home myhome Downloads softwares android-sdk  with path to your custom location place where android sdk is available  Once this is done  and re-run  quot flutter doctor quot  and now it has detected the android sdk location and hence I could run avd emulator by typing  quot flutter run quot

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ctrl shift p   then type Flutter launch emulator or   run this command in your VS code terminal flutter emulators then see the result if you have installed any emulator it will show you   then to run one of them use flutter emulators --launch your emulator id in my case flutter emulators --launch Nexus 6 API 28 but if you havent installed any emulator you can install one with flutter emulators --create  --name xyz  then run your project flutter run inside the root directory of the project

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you can use  Android iOS Emulator  plugin and Add the Android Studio emulator script to your settings in Visual Studio Code      Mac  emulator emulatorPath      Library Android sdk tools emulator      Windows  emulator emulatorPath     lt your android home gt   Sdk  emulator  emulator exe      Linux  emulator emulatorPath      Documents SDK tools   Your visual studio code settings are found here      File -  Preferences -  Setting -  User Setting -  Extensions -  Emulator Configuration  Open command pallete Cmd-Shift-P -  Type Emulator

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Alternatively if you enable developer mode and  ADB  is still needed you can use connect to the device    To enable developer Mode you go to Phone Settings   About Phone   tap buildnumber 7 times  once you have it enabled and have the device connected you can start seeing the device in VSCode

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The following steps were done    installed genymotion configured a device and ran it in the vscode lower right corner the device shows

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set  ANDROID SDK ROOT  in environment variable  solve my problem

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