This section of the Flutter repository contains the command line developer tools for building Flutter applications.
Be sure to follow the instructions on CONTRIBUTING.md to set up your development environment. Further, familiarize yourself with the style guide, which we follow.
First, ensure that the Dart SDK and other necessary artifacts are available by invoking the Flutter Tools wrapper script. In this directory run:
$ ../../bin/flutter --version
To run Flutter Tools from source, in this directory run:
$ ../../bin/dart bin/flutter_tools.dart
followed by command-line arguments, as usual.
To run the analyzer on Flutter Tools, in this directory run:
$ ../../bin/flutter analyze
As with other parts of the Flutter repository, all changes in behavior must be tested. Tests live under the test/
subdirectory.
test/general.shard
.test/commands.shard
. Hermetic tests go under its hermetic/
subdirectory. Non-hermetic tests go under its permeable
sub-directory.test/integration.shard
.In general, the tests for the code in a file called file.dart
should go in a file called file_test.dart
in the subdirectory that matches the behavior of the test.
We measure test coverage post-submit. A change that deletes code might decrease test coverage, however, most changes that add new code should aim to increase coverage. In particular, the coverage of the diff should be close to the average coverage, and should ideally be better.
The integration tests can be configured to use a specific local engine variant by setting the FLUTTER_LOCAL_ENGINE
environment variable to the name of the local engine (e.g. “android_debug_unopt”). If the local engine build requires a source path, this can be provided by setting the FLUTTER_LOCAL_ENGINE_SRC_PATH
environment variable. This second variable is not necessary if the flutter
and engine
checkouts are in adjacent directories.
export FLUTTER_LOCAL_ENGINE=android_debug_unopt ../../bin/dart test test/integration.shard/some_test_case
To run the tests in the test/
directory, first ensure that there are no connected devices. Then, in this directory run:
$ ../../bin/dart pub run test
The tests in test/integration.shard
are slower to run than the tests in test/general.shard
. To run only the tests in test/general.shard
, in this directory run:
$ ../../bin/dart pub run test test/general.shard
To run the tests in a specific file, run:
$ ../../bin/dart pub run test test/general.shard/utils_test.dart
To force the Flutter Tools snapshot to be regenerated, delete the following files:
$ rm ../../bin/cache/flutter_tools.stamp ../../bin/cache/flutter_tools.snapshot