Does Flutter replace Android SDK?

Start Android Studio, and go through the ‘Android Studio Setup Wizard’. This installs the latest Android SDK, Android SDK Command-line Tools, and Android SDK Build-Tools, which are required by Flutter when developing for Android .

Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android. Android SDK belongs to “Frameworks (Full Stack)” category of the tech stack, while Flutter can be primarily classified under “Cross-Platform Mobile Development” .

Note: The Flutter SDK includes the full Dart SDK , and has Dart’s dart command-line interface in its bin folder. Dart tools may send usage metrics and crash reports to Google. By downloading the Dart SDK, you agree to the Google Terms of Service.

That calls both professional native Android and iOS developers to try out the Flutter IDE framework as well as its underlying programming language, Dart. It is still not known whether Flutter will completely or partially replace native apps . It still remains to be answered.

You don’t specifically need Android Studio, all you need is the Android SDK , download it and set the environment variable to the SDK path for the flutter installation to recognise that.