Running an "Example" app that's inside a package project, via VSCODE

[Jeff Jorczak]

I have a Flutter package with a Flutter example project inside it, structured like so:

package
 |- example
    |- lib
      |- main.dart

I set up the launch.json like so:

        {
            "name": "Flutter",
            "request": "launch",
            "type": "dart",
            "program": "example/lib/main.dart",
            "flutterMode": "debug"
        }

but I get this error when trying to run the app:

Launching example/lib/main.dart on iPhone 7 in debug mode...
No application found for TargetPlatform.ios.
Is your project missing an ios/Runner/Info.plist?
Consider running "flutter create ." to create one.
Exited (sigterm)

How might I get it to look at "example" as the project root when running instead of "package"?

[Danny Tuppeny]

Looks like you have found a bug in the handling of relative paths in program! I've opened an issue to fix in the next release but for now you can workaround this by using ${workspaceFolder} in program so that we get an absolute path.

Change:

"program": "example/lib/main.dart"

to

"program": "${workspaceFolder}/example/lib/main.dart"

This should result in the example folder being used as the working directory which should prevent the error you're seeing. Sorry for the bother!