Flutter Desktop Apps: Getting Started
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If you want to distribute your app to your users, you need something to give them. On Android you would have an apk file and on iOS you would have an ipa file. Now with flutter, you can build a release version of the app as either a mac .app file or a windows .exe file. These files run on their own and don’t require flutter or any other development environment. They are fast and can be distributed. Now to actually distribute the files you will need to work with the Apple store for the mac version and the windows store for the windows version. You can go to https://flutter.dev/desktop to read more about distribution.
Terminal
To build a release build for the Mac, go to the terminal app and go to your project directory. Now type:
flutter build macos
PowerShell
On Windows we need to do something similar. Open up PowerShell or CMD. Go to the project directory and type:
flutter build windows
flutter pub add --dev msix
Android Studio
Inside of pubspec.yaml add the following configuration:
msix_config:
display_name: Todo
publisher_display_name: Your Company Name
identity_name: com.kodeco.todo
msix_version: 1.0.0.0
capabilities: internetClient
flutter pub run msix:create