How to run flutter app developed in AndroidStudio on iOS device?

Question

I've developed a flutter app in AndroidStudio and everything is running perfect.

Now I want to display the app on iOS device. I see many similar questions which state that you have to have x-code, etc. setup on a MAC or virtually. Perfect, done all that setup, now, how do I get the AndroidStudio project into iOS IDE (VisualStudio?). I assume once I do that I just run like any other iOS app?

Seems that every flutter tutorial would have this but just don't see it when I google. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

A Flutter project is set up as follows:

Root directory
  - pubspec.yaml
  > lib
    - ... (dart files)
  > assets
    - ...
  > android
    - build.gradle
    > app
      - build.gradle
    > ...
  > ios
    - Runner.xcproject
    - Runner.xcworkspace * (this may not be there until running `pod install` or `flutter run`.
    - Podfile
    > ...

If you have XCode and everything set up properly on a mac, you should be able to run flutter run from the root directory and have it deploy to the device. You could possibly even do this from android studio, although I personally use IntelliJ so I cant verify that.

If you want to open the XCode project directly, you should actually get the option in IntelliJ (and possibly android studio) whenever you look at a swift or objc file. This is a fairly recent feature which has been introduced (as of June 2018).

Otherwise, you can directly open the Runner.xcworkspace file to open the XCode project. Running to a device should work from XCode after you've tried to build at least once with flutter (or you can run pod install in the iOS directory manually).