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Daniel Brotherston
Daniel Brotherston

Reputation: 2041

How to determine if flutter is running in simulator

Is there a call to determine if flutter is running within a simulator or a physical device?

I am scanning QR codes, and want to bypass, since the camera is unavailable.

I expected to find this in platform.dart[1] but it's not there.

[1]https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flutter/lib/src/foundation/platform.dart

I imagine I can create a plugin if I really need, I'm hoping it already exists.

Upvotes: 26

Views: 18918

Answers (5)

Alexander Thiele
Alexander Thiele

Reputation: 727

2021 Update

It‘s now part of Flutter Community Plus (https://plus.fluttercommunity.dev/)

Device Info Plus Docu: https://plus.fluttercommunity.dev/docs/device_info_plus/overview

e.g.:

DeviceInfoPlugin deviceInfo = DeviceInfoPlugin();
if(Platform.isIOS){
  var iosInfo = await deviceInfo.iosInfo;
  if(iosInfo.isPhysicalDevice){...}
}

Upvotes: 21

rmtmckenzie
rmtmckenzie

Reputation: 40433

Using the device info plus plugin you can get various information about the device you're running on, including 'isPhysicalDevice' for both Android and iOS (although you'll have to read them independently).

Upvotes: 27

Adison Masih
Adison Masih

Reputation: 824

I Know I'm A Bit Late, But If Anyone Else Comes Here, This Can Help Them. You Can Just Use This Package: https://pub.dev/packages/safe_device

Add The Latest Version In Your Pubspec.yaml File Then import it:

import 'package:safe_device/safe_device.dart';

Then You Can Check If Device Is An Emulator:

bool isRealDevice = await SafeDevice.isRealDevice;

Upvotes: 8

Ricardo
Ricardo

Reputation: 2291

I'm using https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_is_emulator

import 'package:flutter_is_emulator/flutter_is_emulator.dart';
....
bool isAnEmulator = await FlutterIsEmulator.isDeviceAnEmulatorOrASimulator;

Upvotes: 0

Rémi Rousselet
Rémi Rousselet

Reputation: 277067

No. But what you can do instead is use different configurations (such as a dev configuration).

For this you can use a different main.dart such as main.dev.dart and then run it with flutter run -t lib/main.dev.dart

Upvotes: 0

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