Flutter beta testing

Download v1.5.0-beta.flutter.5 here

If testing, please post feedback in this thread including which platform you were testing on (Win/Mac/Linux). Any problems/issues can be raised as new issues but general feedback (even if everything works) is encouraged to help gauge stability (esp on platforms I can’t test).

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Installing

• Uninstall any existing version of Dart Code from Code and restart Code
• Download the vsix from the link above
• Run the Extensions: Install from VSIX command from the Code command palette and browse to the downloaded vsix file
• Restart Code again

Note: To revert to the marketplace version of the extension you will need to uninstall the beta version explicitly first.

Some things to test

If you test any of these any they work, please let me know (and on which platform)!

Windows

• Flutter projects are detected as flutter and the Dart SDK version number in the status bar (right) shows that it’s the Flutter version
• Standard Dart projects are still detected as Dart and the Dart SDK version number in the status bar (right) does not mention Flutter
• pub get and pub upgrade packages have been replaced by flutter commands in the command palette/pubspec.yaml toolbar
• The status bar shows when a device is connected and if multiple devices are connected you can click on it to select the one to use for launching/debugging
• You can launch apps on the selected device by pressing F5 (note: the first time you do this, Code will ask what type of app - select Flutter which will open launch.json and then hit F5 again to launch
• Breakpoints are hit correctly and you can step with the debugger
• Other debugger features work correctly (stack traces shows, can be navigated, watched variables/locals etc. work)
• Pressing the debugger Restart button (also Ctrl+Shift+F5) causes a hot reload
• Breakpoints work after hot-reloading

Mac

• Flutter projects are detected as flutter and the Dart SDK version number in the status bar (right) shows that it’s the Flutter version
• Standard Dart projects are still detected as Dart and the Dart SDK version number in the status bar (right) does not mention Flutter
• pub get and pub upgrade packages have been replaced by flutter commands in the command palette/pubspec.yaml toolbar
• The status bar shows when a device is connected and if multiple devices are connected you can click on it to select the one to use for launching/debugging
• You can launch apps on the selected device by pressing F5 (note: the first time you do this, Code will ask what type of app - select Flutter which will open launch.json and then hit F5 again to launch
• Breakpoints are hit correctly and you can step with the debugger
• Other debugger features work correctly (stack traces shows, can be navigated, watched variables/locals etc. work)
• Pressing the debugger Restart button (also Ctrl+Shift+F5) causes a hot reload
• Breakpoints work after hot-reloading

Linux

• Flutter projects are detected as flutter and the Dart SDK version number in the status bar (right) shows that it’s the Flutter version
• Standard Dart projects are still detected as Dart and the Dart SDK version number in the status bar (right) does not mention Flutter
• pub get and pub upgrade packages have been replaced by flutter commands in the command palette/pubspec.yaml toolbar
• The status bar shows when a device is connected and if multiple devices are connected you can click on it to select the one to use for launching/debugging
• You can launch apps on the selected device by pressing F5 (note: the first time you do this, Code will ask what type of app - select Flutter which will open launch.json and then hit F5 again to launch
• Breakpoints are hit correctly and you can step with the debugger
• Other debugger features work correctly (stack traces shows, can be navigated, watched variables/locals etc. work)
• Pressing the debugger Restart button (also Ctrl+Shift+F5) causes a hot reload
• Breakpoints work after hot-reloading

If you get stuck, feel free to give me a shout in Gitter Chat.

[DanTup]

Unfortunately I’ve hit another issue with debugging flutter apps. Breakpoints don’t seem to work after a hot reload (even after I’ve implemented what I understood to be required). I’ve raised https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/11040 hoping for some input; though it means it’s likely to be a little longer before this is ready to release (I’d hoped it’d be in a reasonable state this weekend, but it’s very unlikely now).

Once I managed to get to the bottom of these issues I’ll upload another beta for some final testing before it goes live. Thanks for all the testing so far!

[amugofjava]

I’ll try and give it another go on my Ubuntu setup tomorrow if I get chance. 😃