DISCOVER FLUTTER — WEEK #9

An Introduction to Flutter Version Manager (FVM)

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Flutter Version Manager (or FVM) is the easiest way to manage Flutter SDK versions on your machine. So I could say it is a local development game-changer like NVM is.

This means that we can define a specific Flutter version for each project. Additionally, they get cached, so we don’t have to go through the full installation process all the time.

The following is an explanation of the installation and setup process of the FVM on a Linux operating system.

1. Install FVM on Your Machine

• First, make sure that Flutter is installed. In the command line, execute the flutter command:

• Once we have determined that Flutter is installed, we can execute the pub global activate fvm command:

• There is a warning message at the end of the installation process. So the next step would be to add fvm path to our shell’s config file…