Flutter Tracker

A Family Tracker for Flutter. This project is only an exercise in re-creating a propular family tracker using Flutter and should not be used for production purposes.

Firebase

Firebase and firestore are required to run this so make sure to setup a new project.

Style Guide

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Style-guide-for-Flutter-repo

VSCode

You will need to install the Dart and Flutter plugins.

launch.json

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "Flutter_Tracker_DEV",
      "type": "dart",
      "request": "launch",
      "program": "lib/main_dev.dart",
      "args": [
        "--flavor",
        "development"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Flutter_Tracker_PROD",
      "type": "dart",
      "request": "launch",
      "program": "lib/main_prod.dart",
      "args": [
        "--flavor",
        "production"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Settings

You will need to create these files:

android/key.properties

storePassword=<store password>
keyPassword=<key password>
keyAlias=key
storeFile=<path/to/key/file.jks>

android/local.properties

app.id=io.flutter_tracker.app
flutter.buildMode=release
flutter.versionName=1.0.0
flutter.versionCode=1
flutter.sdk=<path/to/flutter/sdk>
sdk.dir=<path/to/android/sdk>
transistorsoft.license=<transistorsoft license key>

Google Services

You will need to add your firebase services json config into the following folders. You can find this file in your firebase project settings.

android/app/src/development
android/app/src/production

Android SDK

You will need to download, unzip the android sdk and update the ANDROID_HOME env var with the path.

https://developer.android.com/studio#downloads
Scroll down to the Command line tools only section.

NOTE: You DO NOT need to download Android Studio.

Java

Java 8 is requried. It seems that the andorid sdk does not support Java 11 yet.

Environment Variables

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64
export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/android/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$HOME/dev/flutter/bin:$HOME/dev/flutter/bin/cache/dart-sdk/bin

Build App Bundle

flutter build appbundle --flavor development -t lib/main_dev.dart

flutter build appbundle --flavor production -t lib/main_prod.dart

flutter build appbundle --flavor production --release -t lib/main_prod.dart

Build APK

flutter build --flavor development -t lib/main_dev.dart

flutter build --flavor production -t lib/main_prod.dart

flutter build --flavor production --release -t lib/main_prod.dart

Run and debug

Command line

flutter run --flavor development -t lib/main_dev.dart

flutter run --flavor production -t lib/main_prod.dart

VSCode

Plug an android device into your computer and enable usb debugging. Next, open the project in VSCode. If everything is setup correctly then you'll see the Flutter version and your device shown at the bottom.