Running your first Hello World app

For this first project, we'll be using the Flutter CLI to create the app. So, to get started, let's make sure everything's ready in your system:

  1. Open your terminal window and type flutter doctor.

You should see a few messages, such as in the following screenshot (this is from a Windows machine that was set up for Android):

If you see some errors here, please make sure that an emulator/simulator is currently loaded, or that a physical device is correctly connected. If that doesn't solve your issues, please review the installation steps in the appendix.

  1. Then, type the flutter create CLI command in order ...

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