I have few app ideas I wanted to create, so I thought I give flutter a try. Downloaded it and as recommended with android-studio… It was horrible bloated and very very slow I could NOT develop with it.

So I started searching for command line based tutorials, but from what I saw in comments was that Google has blocked the method and is no longer supported.

Therefore I am asking is there any other ways to develop android apps, and what do you recommend ? Is there a command line method still alive, qt creator, godot, eclipse ?

  • DessalinesA
    4·
    4 years ago

    I looked into this a few months ago, and it seemed more of a hassle than its worth. At least with jetpack-compose.

    • shilangyu (lemmur)
      3·
      4 years ago

      I can confirm that’s the case. I used to work with a manual android sdk setup but it’s just annoying to setup/maintain. Just install android studio, complete the setup and forget about it

  • lukcyluke@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    4 years ago

    You can build flutter from the command line. Try flutter -h for the beginning. I can recommend VS Code as IDE.

    • MiloOP
      3·
      4 years ago

      Are you able to build with flutter without studio for android? I read “Flutter relies on a full installation of Android Studio to supply its Android platform dependencies”

    • Tanka
      3·
      4 years ago

      I would recommend vs codium. it is practically the same thing as vs code but open source and without the telemetry nonsense.

    • MiloOP
      1·
      4 years ago

      I did not necessarily mean command line, more light weight IDE is fine too. However godot is not a great option UI wise and probably battery usage is high for every day app.

  • illgetanewone
    3·
    4 years ago

    if you want something light maybe give gioui.org a try?

    you will need the android sdk, but no need to use android-studio

    • MiloOP
      1·
      4 years ago

      Are you sure that you do not need android-studio installed for android builds ? I tried using flutter but it complains about android-studio, google chrome etc bloatware…

      • Display@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        4 years ago

        you don’t need android studio, you just need the android sdk installed, I have used flutter without android studio without issues (though setting up the android sdk manually can be annoying)