How to find the path of Flutter SDK

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How to configure Flutter SDK? How to locate the Flutter SDK? I don't know the location of the SDK file.

Add "/flutter/bin" to the Path Environment variable. https://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-10/add-windows-path-environment-variable/ — Napolean, May 08 '18 at 15:37
The flutter SDK path is simply the path where you extracted the flutter zip file upto the folder `..../flutter` and not `flutter/bin` ex: **in windows:** `C:\src\flutter` and not `C:\src\flutter\bin` as some have answered — Mahi, Oct 06 '19 at 11:40
This [Flutter Android Studio](https://androidride.com/how-to-install-flutter-in-android-studio-in-windows/) post might help you. Most of the time you can find it in path variable. — Vijay Ram, Jul 07 '20 at 16:51
On mac and linux, if you are able to run `flutter` on the terminal, you can find your install path using `sh -c "readlink -f \`which flutter\` | rev | cut -d/ -f3- | rev"` — Stereo, Feb 08 '23 at 17:02
On windows, with default Flutter plug-in installation from Android Studio, the flutter SDK was in C:\flutter\flutter, and for what it matters the dart SDK was in C:\flutter\flutter\bin\cache\dart-sdk — Giorgio Barchiesi, Aug 15 '23 at 06:45

score 243 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 14 '20 at 08:33

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If you have the flutter SDK installed.

Run:

flutter doctor -v

The first line will show the install path..

(if you don't have it installed go to the documentation)

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answered Aug 14 '20 at 08:30

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THIS!!! This is the only true correct answer if someone has lost their path in a project. And it does happen. People saying to go look in their IDE are wrong if the project has been made dirty. – Bryan Neuberger Aug 26 '20 at 16:04
Worked for me too, apparently I have more than one flutter SDK. – Andrew Earl Dec 11 '20 at 10:27
It works for me.Thank you good man. – Flutter Supabase Feb 15 '22 at 17:27

score 89 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '20 at 16:58

If you've installed flutter from the snap store on Ubuntu, you'll find the SDK at /home/(username)/snap/flutter/common/flutter

FYI - I installed Flutter on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS using snap install and am using Android Studio 4.0.1 installed via JetBrains toolbox app

sudo snap install flutter --classic
sudo snap install flutter-gallery
flutter channel dev
flutter upgrade
flutter config --enable-linux-desktop

It was not necessary to install the SDK separately, the snap steps above will place the SDK at /home/(username)/snap/flutter/common/flutter

Here's the Android Studio Pop-up for a new Flutter app accepting this location for the Flutter SDK:

score 40 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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In Android Studio

Configuring Flutter SDK is pretty straightforward. You don't have to set paths using the command line if you have already installed Dart and Flutter Plugins in Android Studio

How to Configure Flutter SDK?

Download the SDK and point the SDK folder path in your future projects.

There are different sources you can try

You can clone it from the Github Repository
Download SDK zip file + extract it after downloading
You can also Download any version(including older) from here (For Mac, Windows, Linux)

Use the SDK path in your future projects

How to see Flutter SDK path?

I don't understand the need because you already know the path when you create the project. However, you can get the idea from test/package folder

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answered Apr 18 '19 at 10:18

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How to change the flutter SDK Path after project was created – Soon Santos Aug 08 '19 at 01:18
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See answer and my comments here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50236128/how-to-find-the-path-of-flutter-sdk/58315944#comment105878638_58315944 – Tom Jan 23 '20 at 08:22
The need comes from for instance im working on a project with a team of devs and someone messed with the .idea folder and messed up everyones local environments. So everyone lost their Flutter SDK paths in Android Studio. – Bryan Neuberger Aug 26 '20 at 16:00
So did this help? I am just curious. @BryanNeuberger – Rohit Singh Aug 26 '20 at 18:19
@RohitSingh the best answer is below here just run - flutter doctor -v This will return where your SDK path was downloaded to and is on your local machine. – Bryan Neuberger Aug 27 '20 at 20:16
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@PareshMangukiya thanks your answer is indeed the only answer which addresses changing the flutter sdk path after creating – Phani Rithvij Mar 31 '21 at 06:56

score 29 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 29 '20 at 11:24

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Download flutter from FLUTTER

or clone from master git clone -b master https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git

So, the flutter sdk path is where you copied or cloned the code till the C:\whateverDrive\flutter inside bin there is a file flutter so when coming to choosing SDK, please select the folder till flutter and add the same in env variable in your windows. remember to add the path till bin that is enough.

configuring the flutter sdk in android studio follow this carefully. This explains everything. ;)

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Don't point till the bin folder. Just point till 'C:\whateverDrive\flutter' – Sisir Jan 24 '20 at 19:00

score 24 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 17 '20 at 07:18

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You can use where command in cmd

where flutter

answered Aug 17 '20 at 07:18

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This will help to identify the current location of the flutter sdk in windows operating system from the above answer the sdk path is C:\src – Riswan Aug 23 '20 at 08:19
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This helped me. Thank you. – Manthan_Admane Sep 11 '20 at 22:22

score 12 · Answer 6 · edited Aug 13 '20 at 04:00

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If you installed flutter via the snap on linux then the sdk is likely to be in

~/snap/flutter/common/flutter

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I can confirm this is the case in Fedora 32. I needed to add the path to `dart`, and it was in `~/snap/flutter/common/flutter/bin`. – Nick Ribal Oct 10 '20 at 16:39

score 10 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 24 '22 at 13:28

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go to

> File > Settings >Languages& Frameworks > Flutter

and there you can find and change path also

answered Feb 24 '22 at 13:28

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score 9 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 10 '19 at 05:24

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The Flutter SDK path is certainly defined in a place where you can check it or change it, whether you created the project or not. Under Settings > Languages & Frameworks there should be a Flutter section. I found it by using the handy search bar in the Settings menu.

At the top of the Languages & Frameworks > Flutter is the Flutter SDK Path.

This is assuming that Flutter/Dart have already been installed under Plugins.

answered Oct 10 '19 at 05:24

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Correct. Note that this is a "For current project" setting -- some people think that all Settings are global, but those with a special icon apply to current project – Tom Jan 23 '20 at 08:01
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Also note that just changing this setting did not refresh the ".packages" file for me. I had tun run `flutter pub get` from terminal to refresh it (and also click File > Sync with File System in Android Studio to load the changes) – Tom Jan 23 '20 at 08:21

score 7 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 24 '18 at 07:43

Assuming you have already installed Flutter Plugin if you have not installed then go to Android Studio IDE setting/preferences(MAC) --> plugin--> Browse Repositories and search Flutter then install and restart IDE

Now follow these steps:-

First of all go to https://flutter.io/get-started/install/ and download the Fluter SDK
Then extract the zip file in any specified folder
Now give this path as Fluter SDK

That's it.

score 6 · Answer 10 · edited Jul 17 '20 at 04:52

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Once you have downloaded the Flutter SDK for your specific OS.

Unzip the file. Copy it to a better place. Your Flutter SDK path should be a_better_place/flutter. These would be used in tools such as VSCode or Android Studio.

For command line, you would add a_better_place/flutter/bin. Such as export PATH=a_better_place/flutter/bin:$PATH

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answered May 08 '18 at 14:56

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How does this help? Sounds like the OP has already installed the Flutter SDK. And why 4 upvotes?? – Mawg says reinstate Monica Jun 08 '20 at 13:31

score 6 · Answer 11 · answered Aug 31 '21 at 07:47

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pls follow these steps to add path of flutter SDK

Complete installation guide here:

https://androidride.com/how-to-install-flutter-in-android-studio-in-windows/#change_flutter_sdk_path_android_studio

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score 5 · Answer 12 · answered Mar 06 '21 at 14:14

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If anyone came here to find it for ubuntu and snap installation default path would be.

/home/[user]/snap/flutter/common/flutter

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score 4 · Answer 13 · answered Apr 28 '20 at 15:55

If you simply moved the folder with flutter binary executable as I did, then I suggest following:

check your echo $PATH to point to the correct folder. Use export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/flutter/bin" or whatever you need (and you can also include this into your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc). Use source ~/.bashrc to update it without exiting the current terminal window
Check your Android Studio (v3.6) Flutter SDK path to point to the right folder
flutter clean will clean the build/ folder with old paths
flutter doctor just to make sure everything is installed in the OS correctly

after that you should be able to flutter run which will build a new app.

score 3 · Answer 14 · answered Dec 17 '20 at 19:01

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If you are using a windows OS probably this will be your flutter SDK location

C:\src\flutter

If it's not available it's better to choose a path and clone SDK repository

answered Dec 17 '20 at 19:01

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genericUser · Answer 15 · 2022-11-02T07:47:56.903

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From Flutter official documentation:

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ok so `flutter sdk-path` is not working for me while `flutter doctor` works. sdk-path is not a command. – Vipin Verma Dec 05 '22 at 19:00
doesn't work anymore – Stereo Feb 08 '23 at 17:04
Well... Flutter need to update their documentation, since they are still displaying this as the correct option to find the SDK :\ – genericUser Feb 09 '23 at 08:03

Ray Chakrit · Answer 16 · 2023-02-03T10:02:45.090

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In Android Studio (Chipmunk), installing the Flutter plugin only adds the "New Flutter Project" button which when clicked will open this window

But the plugin doesn't install a Flutter SDK. You have to manually download the SDK from https://flutter.dev (use search engine to find the file) then extract the SDK into a folder before specifying the path to this folder into the "Flutter SDK path" window.

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answered Oct 29 '22 at 12:44

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score 1 · Answer 17 · answered Aug 31 '18 at 13:18

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I also had this problem and I solved it inserting my Flutter SDK path which was

C:\...\flutter_windows_v0.6.0-beta\flutter

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score 1 · Answer 18 · answered Dec 14 '19 at 20:40

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If you suppose unzipped the flutter zip file in folder called "Flutter". Your Flutter SDK Path will be <path_of_unzipped_file>\Flutter\flutter

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score 1 · Answer 19 · answered Dec 30 '22 at 21:50

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as per the official documentation, use

$ which flutter dart

command in your terminal

answered Dec 30 '22 at 21:50

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score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Jan 31 '20 at 05:04

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Visit https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/windows#update-your-path official page of Flutter

for windows you can look an Evroitmen variabel with value name Path

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score 0 · Answer 21 · answered Jul 12 '20 at 15:31

All you need to do is to find a folder called "flutter" (lowecase), which is located inside a folder called "Flutter" (uppercase), select it, and browse it.

In my case it is located at:

C:\Users\Administrator\Flutter\flutter_windows_v1.12.13+hotfix.5-stable\flutter

Also make sure that your Flutter and Dart are of the latest version. If they are not, upgrade them and re-start the IDE.

score 0 · Answer 22 · answered Sep 04 '20 at 16:52

There are many answers but the only thing that worked for me is to remove > bin from path.

At various places, it is written that the path should be your_path/dart/bin or your_path/flutter/bin but the correct path that you need to enter is the following:

your_path/dart 
your_path/flutter

score 0 · Answer 23 · answered Sep 18 '20 at 10:18

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If flutter SDK is already downloaded in the system, then just add path using the below command. This tested on MAC OS

export PATH='sdkpath':$PATH

Eg:

export PATH='/Users/apple/dev/flutter/sdk/flutter/bin':$PATH

answered Sep 18 '20 at 10:18

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score 0 · Answer 24 · answered Mar 12 '21 at 16:19

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Try this command flutter upgrade --force

answered Mar 12 '21 at 16:19

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score 0 · Answer 25 · answered Dec 21 '21 at 07:06

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I used Android studio , installed plugins for flutter.

When this error came ->

I solved it by downloading flutter sdk from Internet and setting its path by selecting its complete folder as sdk.

answered Dec 21 '21 at 07:06

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score 0 · Answer 26 · answered Aug 10 '22 at 13:16

The location to the flutter SDK may be found in the setting.json file.
1) tap ctrl+shift+p
2) tap ctrl+shift+p
3) open setting.json
in that file you maybe found
"dart.flutterSdkPath": "C:\\tools\\flutter_sdk_3.0.4\\flutter\\bin",
"dart.sdkPath": "C:\\tools\\flutter_sdk_3.0.4\\flutter\\bin\\dart",

score 0 · Answer 27 · answered Jul 04 '23 at 09:24

Flutter SDK path as per this documentation is the place where you extracted the flutter folder.

In Windows, generally it is C:\src\flutter ---OR--- run where flutter in terminal to get your path
In Linux and mac, generally it is ~\development\path-to-your-sdk\bin\flutter ----OR--- run which flutter in terminal to get your path

Note: Provide path of flutter folder

score -1 · Answer 28 · answered Dec 02 '20 at 18:43

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To find the Flutter SDK path [ used Windows10 ]

In your Android Studio home page on the bottom right click on Configure
Then Click on SDK Manager
Then on System Settings
Then on AndroidSDK

You will see the path at the top

answered Dec 02 '20 at 18:43

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score -2 · Answer 29 · answered Mar 06 '20 at 08:41

How to create FLUTTER project in android studio in fedora:-

I have installed following:- 1 Android studio 2 Then do following:-

Start Android Studio. Open plugin preferences (Preferences > Plugins on macOS, File > Settings > Plugins on Windows & Linux). Select Marketplace, select the Flutter plugin and click Install. Click Yes when prompted to install the Dart plugin. Click Restart when prompted.

4:- Now create project by clicking new flutter project and do following:- * Choose Flutter Application from the list of configurations * Fill the name and other things * For flutter sdk click and install flutter sdk and specify the location of downloading and after downloading completion, choose that sdk path, this will load your FLutter sdk.

Rest do steps as per your need to create project

How to find the path of Flutter SDK

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In Android Studio

How to Configure Flutter SDK?

Use the SDK path in your future projects

How to see Flutter SDK path?

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