Why do I need Android Studio for Flutter?

Flutter is a framework for building cross platform mobile apps while Android Studio is an IDE which allows you to write Android apps using Java / Kotlin . With the advent of Flutter, Android Studio also allows you to write cross platform apps using Flutter. You’ll have to install some plugins though.

Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful , natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. In this codelab, you’ll create a simple chat application for Android, iOS, and (optionally) the web.

The main difference between Flutter and Android Studio is that Flutter is basically a mobile app SDK that is developed to help developers and designers as well to build mobile apps that have a modern model for both iOS and Android, while Android studio belongs to the category of tech stack of “Integrated Development …