VSCode and flutter, how to connect multiple devices?

Question

I am using Visual Studio Code on macOS for developing Flutter apps.

I can select a single device in the bottom-left of VSC. I can also run on multiple devices using flutter run -d all. I am wondering how I can run on multiple devices using the debug console in VSC. Or, at the very least, debug one device but show updates on all.

Thank you

Answer 1

If you're on recent versions of Flutter and the Dart/Flutter extensions (Dec 2019 onwards) this is now supported using VS Code's compound launch configurations.

Your .vscode/launch.json should contain an entry for each device, along with its deviceId (this is the ID you would pass to flutter run -d xxx):

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Current Device",
            "request": "launch",
            "type": "dart"
        },
        {
            "name": "Android",
            "request": "launch",
            "type": "dart",
            "deviceId": "android"
        },
        {
            "name": "iPhone",
            "request": "launch",
            "type": "dart",
            "deviceId": "iphone"
        },
    ],
    "compounds": [
        {
            "name": "All Devices",
            "configurations": ["Android", "iPhone"],
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Multi-device-debugging-in-VS-Code.

Answer 2

How about this one, it worked for me

flutter run -d all