Example of building a Flutter app for Android using Gradle
This project demonstrates how to embed Flutter within an Android application and build the Android and Flutter components with Gradle.
To build this project:
- Create a
local.properties
file with these entries:sdk.dir=[path to the Android SDK]
flutter.sdk=[path to the Flutter SDK]
Then run:
gradle wrapper
./gradlew build
Updating the Dart code
You can push new Dart code to a Flutter app during development without performing a full rebuild of the Android app package.
The flutter refresh
tool manages this process. flutter refresh
will build
a snapshot of an app's Dart code, copy it to an Android device, and send an
intent instructing the Android app to load the snapshot.
To try this out:
- Install and run this app on your device
- Edit the Dart code in
app/src/flutter/lib
- cd
app/src/flutter
flutter refresh --activity com.example.flutter/.ExampleActivity
flutter refresh
sends an ACTION_RUN
intent with an extra containing the
device filesystem path where the snapshot was copied. ExampleActivity.java
shows how an activity can handle this intent and load the new snapshot into
a Flutter view.