Technical requirements

You will need your development environment again for this chapter as we will add a plugin to the Hello World project. Look back at Chapter 1, An Introduction to Flutter, if you need to set up your Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or refresh your knowledge of the development environment requirements.

Preparing your app for deployment

At this point, you may be thinking that you've been successfully running your app on devices, so the job is done! From a Flutter point of view, you are virtually ready for production – but there is one piece we need to revisit as a refresher.

Let's remind ourselves of a couple of the Flutter aims. One key aim is to ensure that app development is optimized for developers as far as possible to ensure the following:

• Reduce the feedback loop so that developers can see how their changes have changed the app without a lengthy compile time. Hot reload is an example of this.
• Have great debugging...