Flutter Tutorial Installing Flutter On Linux Without Android Studio

Watch this video if you want to learn how to setup Flutter, Android Command Line tools and Microsoft Visual Studio Code for development. This will come in handy if you are hoping to become an Android or iOS app developer. This tutorial shows your how to install Flutter, Android Command Line tools and Visual Studio Code on Linux Operating Systems such as Linux Mint or Ubuntu as well as creating an AVD (Android Virtual Device)

Flutter is an open-source app development SDK for both Android and iOS made by Google. Flutter is great if you want to make Android and iOS versions of your app without having to have 2 developer teams (For Android and iOS)

It should be noted that this video tutorial will show you how to install flutter without Android Studio. I've asked few times "How do you install flutter without Android Studio?" and this is how. You install Android Command Line Tools instead.
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JDK 8
$ https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

Install JDK
$ cd /usr/lib/jvm
$ sudo tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/jdk-8u211-linux-x64.tar.gz
$ sudo nano /etc/environment
$ J2SDKDIR="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_211"
$ J2REDIR="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_211/jre"
$ JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_211"
$ DERBY_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_211/db"

$ sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_211/bin/java" 0
$ sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_211/bin/javac" 0
$ sudo update-alternatives --set java /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_211/bin/java
$ sudo update-alternatives --set javac /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_211/bin/javac
$ update-alternatives --list java
$ update-alternatives --list javac
$ java -version

git
$ sudo apt install git

Flutter
$ https://flutter.dev

Android Command Line Tools
$ https://developer.android.com/studio/#command-tools

Visual Studio Code
$ https://code.visualstudio.com

Setting up the emulator
$ sdkmanager "system-images;android-28;google_apis_playstore;x86_64"
$ sdkmanager "platform-tools"
$ sdkmanager "build-tools;28.0.3"
$ sdkmanager "platforms;android-28"
$ sdkmanager "emulator"

Accept licenses
$ sdkmanager --licenses

Creating Android Emulator
$ avdmanager create avd -n pixel -k "system-images;android-28;google_apis_playstore;x86_64" -d 19

Running emulator from Terminal with Audio
$ emulator @pixel

Running emulator from Terminal without Audio
$ emulator -noaudio -avd pixel

Install kvm (If necessary)
$ sudo apt install qemu-kvm
$ sudo adduser username kvm
$ sudo chown username /dev/kvm

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