Astarar (Eng. Sami Alfattani)

A new Flutter project.

Flutter and Android in $PATH (Linux)

PATH="$PATH:$HOME/Documents/programs/flutter/bin"
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/Documents/programs/flutter/dart-sdk/bin"
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/Documents/programs/flutter/cmake/bin"

export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Documents/programs/android_sdk
PATH="$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/cmdline-tools/latest/bin"
PATH="$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator"
PATH="$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools"

Create AVD

avdmanager can be found in /path/to/command-tools/bin/latest

# get installed AVDs
> avdmanager list avd 

Run Emulator

emulator.exe can be found in /path/to/sdk/emulator/

emulator -list-avds

emulator -avd Resizable_Experimental_API_33

Run

flutter clean

# get availavle connected (running) devices
> flutter devices

cd "~\Documents\modunsa"

flutter build
flutter run
flutter run -d emulator-5554 
flutter run -d R3CN70DBFHL

Run (MacOS)

# Make sure Pod is working correctly
$ rm -rf ./ios/Podfile.lock
$ pod update


# Run ios Simulator (MacOS)
$ open -a Simulator
$ flutter build ios
$ flutter run
$ flutter run --release

Deploy to Android

1. you can read this article
2. Make sure you are using same *.jks file (Upload Sining Key) that is already uploaded toe Google Play.
3. *.jks file need a password to be read properly which can be found in build/Android/key.properties file.

keytool -genkey -v -keystore modunsa.jks -alias modunsa -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000 

4. Create Bundle:

flutter build apk
# build/app/outputs/bundle/release/app-release.apk

# for AAB file
flutter build appbundle
# build/app/outputs/bundle/release/app-release.aab

5. upload Sybmols file. compress all folders in (Windows zip):

#  build/app/intermediates/merged_native_libs/release/out/lib
(cd build/app/intermediates/merged_native_libs/release/out/lib && zip -r ../../../../../../app/outputs/bundle/release/symbols.zip *)

# on Windows download zip from here 
https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/releases

Deploy to IOS (MacOS)

1. Make sure that gem installer is ready to use(gem --version) or download here.

• brew install gpg2

2. Install XCode.

3. Install Flutter

• in ~/.bashrc file:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/Downloads/flutter/bin"

4. Install Android Studio

• Android Studio > More Actions... > SDK Manager > SDK platforms > select last updated one
• Android Studio > More Actions... > SDK Manager > SDK Tools > Android SDK Command-line tools
• in ~/.bashrc file

export ANDROID_HOME="~/Library/Android/sdk"

export PATH="$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools"
export PATH="$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools"
export PATH="$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin"

4. Install cocoapods

# install cocoapods (building tool like Gradle)
$ sudo gem install cocoapods

# check installation 
$ gem which cocoapods

5. Edit project configurations using XCode

6. Build IPA (iOS App Store package) package

$ flutter build ipa

# find the *.ipa file in ./modunsa/build/ios/ipa

7. Upload using Transporter, this app can be found in apple store.

Configure Firebase for (Notifications)

1. Make sure npm is ready to use
2. Create a Firebase Project from Google Firebase Console.

# install Firebase CLI
$ npm install -g firebase-tools

# check ...
$ firebase --version

# login to your Gmail account that contains the Firebase project and authorize it.
$ firebase login 
# login to another user
$ firebase login --reauth

$ cd Documents/modunsa/

# Add or Update the flutter package 
$ flutter pub add firebase_core

# Install flutterfire_cli 
$  dart pub global activate flutterfire_cli

# Add it to PATH
export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/.pub-cache/bin"

# This will creates the 'firebase_options.dart' in your Flutter project.
# This will creates 2 Apps (Android & iOS) in your Firebase Console.
$ flutterfire configure --project=modunsa

$ flutter clean
$ flutter build

6. in flutter initialize the firebase object like this

WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();

await Firebase.initializeApp(
  //project name in Firebase Console
  name: "modunsa", /* DON'T USE IT WITH DEFAULT OPTIONS */
  options: DefaultFirebaseOptions.currentPlatform,
);