© Fu Cheng 2019
F. ChengFlutter Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4982-6_2

2. Know the Tools

Fu Cheng1 
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Sandringham, Auckland, New Zealand
 

Building Flutter apps cannot succeed without the help of various tools. During the development, we may need to use tools from Dart SDK, Flutter SDK, and IDEs. Making good use of these tools can increase your productivity. This chapter covers usage of tools from Dart SDK, Flutter SDK, Android Studio, and VS Code.

2.1 Using Dart Observatory

Problem

You want to know the internals of a running Flutter app.

Solution

Use Dart Observatory provided by Dart SDK.

Discussion

Dart Observatory is a tool provided by Dart SDK to profile and debug Dart applications. Since Flutter apps are also Dart applications, Observatory ...

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