Creating your development environment is the first task that every developer has to go through when starting with a new platform. In some ways, the ease in which you can go from nothing to building software can be seen as a litmus test for how your experience with the platform is going to be. If the environment is difficult and painful to set up, then it might be very likely that it will be difficult and painful to work with.
The Flutter engineers must have taken this to heart because getting started with Flutter is easier than with other frameworks. You can divide the process into three distinct sections. First, you have to install the Flutter software development kit (SDK). Then, you have to install at least one platform SDK—iOS or Android, or both if you are working on a Mac. Since Flutter 2.0, you can also install a desktop SDK to develop...
