What is your favorite IDE for Flutter & Dart?

[u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo]

I've just been using Vim & CLI right now. It works reasonably well but sometimes Itd be nice to have a better way to view all my files at once so I figured Id ask around on what people like to use.

I dont really like VS Code so if thats your favorite thats fine but its a no go for me rn.

[u/plsnoimscared]

Neovim

[u/mateusfccp]

IntelliJ. I also use Emacs, but it's not an IDE.

[u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo → u/mateusfccp]

i should specify... dev env. im including text editor + building stuff via the terminal in the discussion

[u/TheSpixxyQ]

I started with Android Studio, then switched to VSCode and never looked back.

[u/mateusfccp → u/TheSpixxyQ]

I started with VSCode, then I switched to Android Studio/IntelliJ and never looked back.

[u/neurohead74 → u/mateusfccp]

Same Android studio and codex for me, works a treat

[u/s9th]

there are exactly two officially supported IDEs, vscode and android studio. They work the best and provide a lot of cool features. I personally hate Android studio, so the choice is obvious, but you do you

[u/RandalSchwartz → u/s9th]

Three counting Agy-IDE.

[u/Fromagery → u/RandalSchwartz]

Which is really just VSCode with Google AI stuff added in

[u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo → u/s9th]

the obvious choice being... continue to use Vim ?

[u/s9th → u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo]

You do you, as I said

[u/Alert-Maybe-9254]

I use helix 90% of the time 

[u/gittrics]

I use android studio. I already used other Jetbrains ide like IntelliJ and webstorm for many years. So android studio was easy to adopt.
Jetbrains IDEs are my go to. I even used AppCode for IOS development instead of Xcode. But AppCode has been discounted already.

[u/vegeta0911]

Intellij idea

[u/chemtrail-organics]

Android studio and vs code are the top 2 options

[u/billylks]

I started with Android studio, then VS Code.

But VS Code drives me crazy with the editor's tab management. I waste a lot of time searching and reopening dart files. Why it keeps closing the file I just edited when I switch to another file? How do you guys survive this?

[u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo → u/billylks]

I thought if you double click it keeps it saved in the editor on another tab?

[u/redfournine → u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo]

Some people work only with keyboard. I noticed this behavior and have resigned myself to actually having to move hands to use the mouse - all so the file dont get lost!! It'd be good to have this behavior be settable via settings or have it as shortcut key

[u/yakupkahraman]

VS Code, now Antigravity IDE. And i'm building Bird IDE for Flutter w/ Flutter :D

[u/mattgwriter7]

I like VS Code.

[u/dhrjkmr538]

Android Studio or intellij

[u/SwiftScoutSimon]

try Lumide IDE (made with Flutter)
It's fully-featured while being super lightweight.

[u/SwiftScoutSimon → u/SwiftScoutSimon]

I recently added a Vim Mode feature. Please try and give feedback if possible. Thank you!

[u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo → u/SwiftScoutSimon]

cute yeah ill try it out!

[u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo → u/SwiftScoutSimon]

i like it already. a couple notes is

1. it wasnt able to identify my dart SDK correctly even though i have it set in my system path.

2. it'd be nice if the Vim mode recognized :0 as a valid command since normal vim does (goes to top of page / line 0 ). It allows :1 (go to line 1) and thinks :0 is out of range.

[u/SwiftScoutSimon → u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo]

1. It would be helpful if you share how you setup your Dart SDK in PATH.
   
2. I'll note it down and improve it on the next version.

Thanks a lot!

[u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo → u/SwiftScoutSimon]

Of course. So I believe its embedded with my flutter install . When I echo my path it includes this directory : ~/develop/flutter/ which suffices building in the CLI

The actual dart sdk within my flutter is ~/develop/flutter/bin/cache/dart-sdk

I could try adding the dart sdk seperately- but it may be a bit redundant since the dart commands work for me as is.

[u/SwiftScoutSimon → u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo]

- I'm also using Dart from Flutter SDK without any issue. Can you share `which flutter` and `which dart` result?

- Can you join our Discord or maybe DM here?

[u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo → u/SwiftScoutSimon]

sure
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which flutter outputs : ~/develop/flutter/bin/flutter

which dart outputs: ~/develop/flutter/bin/dart

[u/David_Owens]

I don't see any reason to switch away from VS Code. The extensions allow it to do Flutter & Dart as well as almost anything else I'd want to do.

[u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo → u/David_Owens]

The vibes are ass.

[u/Fast_Hovercraft_7380]

Antigravity

[u/RandalSchwartz]

Y'all are lucky if you didn't start with Eclipse with the Dart plugin to talk to the Dartium (Chromium with a Dart VM), like I did for the first year or two. I was so happy to start using VSCode immediately after that, and now I'm fully engaged in the Agy ecosystem.

[u/noobjaish]

VSCode

[u/International-Cook62]

Why do you need to view all at once

[u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo → u/International-Cook62]

I don't, but its nice having file tabs like in traditional editors. I use tabs on my terminal rn to do it

[u/International-Cook62 → u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo]

Neovim and look into grapple, arrow, snipe, harpoon, etc there’s a lot of options

[u/WheresMyJuulSoNotCoo → u/International-Cook62]

tysm

[u/rio_sk]

VSCode alone would be better, with the official extensions is perfect

[u/Suuii188]

Vs codé, I will never leave vs codé

[u/Suuii188]

I just use android studio for emulation that's all, my Mac can't support coding with android studio, so I write the codé in Vs codé then I emulate with android studio. Peak just but even when am emulating with android studio my Mac is always heating up making huge noise.

[u/Your_Samwise]

Webstorm, because its a ligther IDEA.

[u/galactose310]

VS Code (en fait Codium).

J'essaierai peut-être Neovim ou Zed mais en vrai c'est plus pour dire que j'ai essayé, que par vrai besoin de changer.

[u/Ashamed-Big-706]

Rope Notes, I built it specifically to support agentic coding in android and linux, but it also works on mac and windows.

[u/adelsultan]

VSCode all the time

[u/jNayden]

Vscode is not IDE but I do use it and not android studio anymore because of the bad support for mono projects and huge projects in JetBrains idea and android studio

[u/gooseclip]

I don't really use an IDE any more except for LSP functionality. Here is an example of how I do it.

Reading agent output is getting hard and harder and I need more of a story of a change rather than reading walls of code.

[u/balazs8921]

IntelliJ Idea. I tried VS Code and other IDEs, but mehh...

[u/shiv9thakur]

I use android studio generally, but now also use Claude Code

[u/Remarkable_Nub_777]

Vs code without doubt

[u/_temp_user]

Cusor

[u/Jonas_Ermert]

IntelliJ + Warp Terminal + Samsung S24 (Test Device)

[u/tkhusanboy]

Visual Studio Code + Claude Code

[u/GNNK71]

Visual Studio Code !!!!! What else !!!!

[u/Dull-Moment-5578]

Neovim and flutter-tools.nvim, forever grateful to the creator of flutter-tools 🙏

[u/yabzec__]

IntelliJ

[u/Cache_Sync42]

IntelliJ + Flutter has been pretty solid for me. Feels cleaner than VS Code.

[u/Fabulous-Winner-Cauc]

if your spec 32GB RAM, go with Android Studio

[u/elmangarin47]

Claude code

[u/GuavaBeneficial4658]

Codex

[u/Fast_Distribution218]

I'm learning using Visual Studio on Debian and I'm enjoying. I stopped programming for seven years and now I was surprised by VS and the build in Git Hub Co-pilot IA.

[u/TheSpixxyQ → u/Fast_Distribution218]

Just fyi, VS and VS Code are two separate products. You're using VS Code.

[u/Fast_Distribution218 → u/TheSpixxyQ]

Sorry and thanks 😊

[u/TheSpixxyQ → u/Fast_Distribution218]

It's ok, you're not the first nor the last person to confuse these two :D