Reputation: 191

Flutter project on android Studio 4.2.1 no database inspector, profiler and emulator window

Two months and no answer. Am I the only one having this problem? Yesterday I downloaded and installed Android Studio Arctic Fox 2020.3.1 on my new laptop (Windows 10 64 bit, i7-8565U) and HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AGAIN!! Android projects I have all tools, Flutter project missing emulator window, database inspector and profiler!

Android Studio 4.2.1 on Windows 10. Latest stable Flutter version. If I create an Android project I have all tools: database inspector, profiler and the emulator window. If I create a Flutter project I have no database inspector, no profiler and no emulator window. Flutter doctor gives no error. Everything worked fine until the upgrade to 4.2.1 What's going on? Thank you

Upvotes: 15

Answers (6)

Chembe Banda

Reputation: 81

I've had this issue and been following this question from the time you posted it. Finally found a solution to it on another SO question.

Solution: Enable the Android Facet It turned out that I had to enable the Android Facet for this project:

Go to File → Project Structure Choose Facets Press the small + Button at the top Select Android from the list Confirm your project by clicking the project_name and press OK

Please check out the full answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/68839489/8362593

I hope it works for you too.

Upvotes: 7

markus_frommherz

Reputation: 724

Your workaround in words, you probably found this out, and did not bother to document it. It is just for the next person :-).

Start your flutter app in debug mode.

Select your android folder in flutter project.

Right click -> Flutter -> Open in Android Studio.

Do NO upgrade Gradle Plugin, when suggested. It might break flutter build and is not needed.

Android Window: Click Debug Icon. Wait a bit.

Click something in your app, so your db is active.

Android Window: Click App Inspection at bottom of android window.

Result: The Database Inspector shows up, and you can inspect db content in android window.

-- You have to switch between windows, and yes, it is a pain in the but.

-- Flutter plugin and Android integration is lackluster since 2018, but probably very hard to keep up with all that upstream in sync :-(.

Upvotes: 0

emiliano67

Reputation: 191

Right, basically it doesn't work. That's it. Maybe one day it will. In the meantime I'm using AS 4.1.3 so that I can get all the available tools.

Remember to set environment: sdk: ">=2.12.0 <3.0.0" to have null-safety enabled and to go to Project Structure and set an SDK otherwise you'll get the old ADB.exe file not found when starting the Emulator which means also no Profiler and a bunch of other tools.

Upvotes: 0

Martin Zeitler

Reputation: 76759

I think you might rather have the PATH wrong (which means: using an outdated emulator),
because the emulator now resides in directory called emulator (which wasn't always the case).

This can be easily verified:

emulator -v
emulator: Android emulator version 30.8.4.0 (build_id 7600983) (CL:N/A)

If you'd get anything less than the current version 30.8.4.0 (despite having installed version 30.8.4.0 with the SDK Manager), you'd know what the actual cause is. Once having fixed the PATH, the proper version of the emulator should become accessible / usable ...and even an upgrade to Arctic Fox should then be possible, at least while the Flutter build.gradle scripts are compatible with Gradle 7.1.1.

Upvotes: 0