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Discussion on: A month of Flutter: create the app

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Guney Ozsan

Thanks for the introduction. Do you have any experience comparing Android studio and VS Code for Flutter?

I am a game developer with little experience with non-games. I am considering starting Flutter for my future non-game projects (getting out of my comfort zone for the first time). I'm considering VS Code for its light-weight, convenience and familiarity to me. But I wonder if Android studio worths switching and learning a new tool?

Curious because I'm a C# game developer working on Visual Studio 2017. VS 2017 supports C# so nicely that I can't think of any other IDE workflow for C#. Is it similar for Flutter, or doesn't matter much?

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Gabriel Mayta

I used Visual Studio Code with Flutter and It's works fine. I developed two apps, amazing.

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Guney Ozsan

Thank you. 2 apps is very promising.

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Abraham Williams

I've been an Atom user for the last several years with only a little VS Code experience. I know a lot of Atom users switched to Code so I suspect they are fairly similar.

Android Studio feels a lot heavier to use then Atom. Almost all the keyboard shortcuts I'm used to are different so I find that difficult. I think that the integration with flutter and the Android Emulator are not as good for Code.

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Guney Ozsan

Thanks for the insight. I am pretty used to working on a plugged device from game dev, I'll probably keep going like that. Anyway, Android Studio looks huge and scary to me:)

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Abraham Williams

It's got a lot of buttons and knobs but you can usually ignore most of it.