2018-12-08

Flutter Development in Chromebook

In November 2018, I am excited to have my HP Chromebook set up for Flutter development with VS Code. I am sharing here how I did it:


  1. Enable Chromebook Developer Mode
  2. Enable Linux in ChromeOS
  3. Install Flutter
    1. Download tar file from Flutter website
    2. Move tar file to Linux partition
    3. Untar (no need to run any install script)
  4. Download and unzip Android Studio, and install Flutter plugin
  5. Enable Android Developer Mode in ChromeOS
    1. Chromebook settings
    2. Google Play Store
    3. Manage Android Properties
    4. About
    5. Device
    6. Build (tap 7 times)
  6. Enable Android ADB Debugging
    1. Chromebook settings
    2. Google Play Store
    3. Manage Android Properties
    4. Developer Options
    5. ADB Debugging
  7. Run ~/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb connect 100.115.92.2:5555
  8. Run ~/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/adb devices
  9. Download VS Code .deb package, double click to install
  10. Install VS Code Flutter plugin
  11. VS Code: locate Dart-SDK at ~/flutter/bin/cache/dart-sdk