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Flutter Application Deployment Guide

Prerequisites

  • Flutter SDK installed on your local machine
  • A code editor of your choice (e.g. Visual Studio Code)
  • Familiarity with the terminal or command line
  • A remote repository for your code (e.g. GitHub, GitLab)

Building the Flutter Application

  1. Clone your Flutter project from your remote repository to your local machine
  2. Open the terminal or command line and navigate to the project's root directory
  3. Run flutter pub get to install all required dependencies
  4. Run flutter build to build the application

Deploying to Android

  1. Connect your Android device to your local machine via USB
  2. Run flutter run to deploy the application to your Android device

Deploying to iOS

  1. Connect your iOS device to your local machine via USB
  2. Run flutter run to deploy the application to your iOS device

Building an APK for Android

  1. Open the terminal or command line and navigate to the project's root directory
  2. Run flutter build apk to build an APK file
  3. The generated APK file can be found in the build/app/outputs/apk/ directory

Building an IPA for iOS

  1. Open the terminal or command line and navigate to the project's root directory
  2. Run flutter build ios to build an IPA file
  3. The generated IPA file can be found in the build/ios/iphoneos/ directory

Note: Before deploying to iOS, you need to have a Mac machine with Xcode installed. Before deploying to an iOS device, you must have an Apple Developer Account.

Conclusion

By following the above steps, you can easily build and deploy your Flutter application to both Android and iOS devices. Don't forget to regularly commit and push your code changes to your remote repository to keep it up-to-date.

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