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Introduction

• In the Flutter article, we set up the environment. At that time, we were manually executing commands to build
• This time, we'll try building using Cursor (vscode)

🛠 Setting up the flutter run environment in IDE

Getting Started

0. Install the environment required for flutter. However, since this was already explained in the previous article, we'll skip it here.
1. Download the flutter plugin from MARKPLACE / EXTENSION

2. After installation, restart the IDE and press win/command + shift + p to display the built-in command tool At the same time, enter flutter doctor and click run

The check will start (mainly checking if the flutter environment is ready for use in the IDE)

3. Next, create ../.vscode/launch.json in your project

• Use the following json format to create flutter build settings

  {
      // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
      // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
      // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
      "version": "0.2.0",
      "configurations": [
  
          {
              "name": "MultiAIChatFlutter",
              "request": "launch",
              "type": "dart"
          },
          {
              "name": "MultiAIChatFlutter (profile mode)",
              "request": "launch",
              "type": "dart",
              "flutterMode": "profile"
          },
          {
              "name": "MultiAIChatFlutter (release mode)",
              "request": "launch",
              "type": "dart",
              "flutterMode": "release"
          }
      ]
  }
  

• You can also generate it through the IDE. New IDEs have features to generate launch.json settings with one click Find Build & Debug and click create a launch.json file

The IDE will ask you which project to configure. For flutter, choose `Dart & Flutter`

4. Afterwards, click the play button in the upper left or press the F5 key in the IDE to start building flutter through the IDE

Setting up one-click macOS .dmg build in the IDE

1. We've already created ../.vscode/launch.json in the previous step Now we'll set up a command to build macOS .dmg, and at the same time create inputs to dynamically input the dmg title

       {
   
           "version": "0.2.0",
           "configurations": [
               //omitted...
               , 
               {
                   "name": "Build macOS DMG",
                   "request": "launch",
                   "type": "node-terminal",
                   "command": "flutter config --enable-macos-desktop && flutter build macos && create-dmg build/macos/Build/Products/Release/${workspaceFolderBasename}.app --dmg-title=\"${input:dmgTitle}\" --overwrite",
                   "preLaunchTask": "checkDependencies"
               }
           ],
           "inputs": [
               {
                   "id": "dmgTitle",
                   "type": "promptString",
                   "description": "DMG Title",
                   "default": "${workspaceFolderBasename}"
               }
           ]
       }
   

• Brief explanation: We've set up a build task called Build macOS DMG in configurations. This task performs actions such as enabling macOS build settings, running flutter build macos, running create-dmg, etc. In this, the value of --dmg-title is obtained from the dmgTitle member of inputs

2. Select the Build macOS DMG script in the IDE

3. Since we've set up dmgTitle, the IDE will display an input field where you can enter any name you like

4. After that, the terminal will automatically open and the build will begin