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Preqrequisites 
- Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows 
- git(used for source version control)
- An IDE, such as Android Studio with the Flutter plugin or VS Code 
- Android platform tools - Mac: brew install --cask android-platform-tools
- Linux: sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb
 - Verify that - adbis in your PATH (that- which adbprints sensible output).- If you're also working on the Flutter engine, you can use the copy of the Android platform tools in - .../engine/src/third_party/android_tools/sdk/platform-tools.
- Mac: 
- Python (used by some of our tools) 
Set up your environment 
- Clone the flutter/flutter repo using either SSH or HTTPS (SSH is recommended, but requires a working SSH key on your GitHub account): - SSH: git clone [email protected]:flutter/flutter.git
- HTTPS: git clone https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
 
- SSH: 
- Change into the directory of the cloned repository and rename the origin remote to upstream: - cd flutter
- git remote rename origin upstream
 
- Fork the flutter/flutter repo into your own GitHub account. 
- Add your fork as the origin remote to your local clone either using SSH or HTTPS (SSH is recommended, but requires a working SSH key on your GitHub account) by replacing ████████ with your GitHub account name: - SSH: git remote add origin [email protected]:████████/flutter.git
- HTTPS: git remote add origin https://github.com/████████/flutter.git
 
- SSH: 
- Verify the upstream and origin repository you've specified for your clone. - git remote -v
 
- Add the repo's - bindirectory to your PATH: e.g. on UNIX, using- export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/<path to flutter repository>/bin"- If you already have a Flutter installation you will either need to remove it from your PATH, or use a full path whenever you are running flutterin this repository. If you have version solving errors when trying to run examples below, you are running a version of Flutter other than the one checked out here.
 
- If you already have a Flutter installation you will either need to remove it from your PATH, or use a full path whenever you are running 
- flutter update-packages- This will recursively fetch all the Dart packages that Flutter depends on. If version solving failed, try - git fetch upstreamto update Flutter versions before- flutter update-packages.
Tip If you plan on using IntelliJ as your IDE, then also run
flutter ide-config --overwriteto create all of the IntelliJ configuration files so you can open the main flutter directory as a project and run examples from within the IDE.
Next steps:
- Running examples, to see if your setup works.
- The flutter tool, to learn about how the fluttercommand line tool works.
- Style guide for Flutter repo, to learn how to write code for Flutter.
- Tree hygiene, to learn about how to submit patches.
- Signing commits, to configure your environment to securely sign your commits.