Android SDK Platform-Tools now available a separate down load ~3MB

[seb mitchell]

I just wanted to mention that adb and other tools are available now from google

without needing to download the very large android studio.

Linux size of the zip file is 3.4MB

https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html

But am getting an issue with flutter via the command line,

this is not a real issue for me as I have/can down load Android studio.

If all components required by flutter are in Platform-Tools,

it would be cool if flutter could work without android studio download. 

flutter run

"Unable to locate a development device; please run 'flutter doctor' for information about installing additional components."

with zip file extracted to /home/myhomedir/platform-tools/

 flutter doctor say

[-] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices

    • Android SDK at /home/myhomedir

    x Android SDK is missing command line tools; download from https://goo.gl/XxQghQ

    • Try re-installing or updating your Android SDK.

Thanks

seb

[Seth Ladd]

Great idea! Thanks for the suggestion. I wonder if we should open an issue for this request, or if the team already evaluated this...

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[Adam Barth]

The reason we depend on Android Studio rather than just the platform tools is that we plan to use more of Android Studio as time goes on.  For example, we plan to use gradle to drive the build process for APKs, which is part of Android Studio and not part of the platform tools.

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[seb mitchell]

Cool, it's reasonable to expect that someone who is interested in creating android apps

would have android studio installed.

Thanks for the quick response.

seb

[Laurent Forêt]

What if we use to develop with another IDE that already support gradle ? 

From my point of view, the mandatory installation of AndroidStudio to install flutter is breaking my wish to test it. 

Android Studio is more for confort than necessary.

BTW, I find this project very interesting and enthusiasting.

Regards,

Laurent Forêt.

[Adam Barth]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 1:43 AM Laurent Forêt <lauren...@gmail.com> wrote:

What if we use to develop with another IDE that already support gradle ? 

Do you have a suggestion for what that might be?

You also need android.jar in order to build an Android app.  I don't think that's in the platform-tools download.

From my point of view, the mandatory installation of AndroidStudio to install flutter is breaking my wish to test it. 

Android Studio is more for confort than necessary.

I'm certainly sympathetic to that point of view, but I'm not quite sure what else to do at the moment.

BTW, I find this project very interesting and enthusiasting.

Thanks!

Adam

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Vim, Visual Code, Sublime Text, Atom, ...

I stumbled upon this thread because I share the opinion. I don't want to install that full blown IDE just to try it out :)

Cool project though!