When I want to start a new Flutter Project in Android Studio (3.5.1.) I get the following event:
Error creating project. Could not find an option named "androidx". Empty folders are created, but no project.
I've not set anything to needing androidx and I've updated everything I could in Android Studio.
How do I get around this error?
There's an accepted answer already but to me the way to solve that was very different, so I still post it hoping for it to be useful to someone.
In my case, I just had to update flutter. To do so, I ran
flutter upgrade
from the command line. That took a few minutes. Afterwards I was able to create a Flutter project from Android Studio flawlessly.
Due to no upgrade for a long while, I need to upgrade the flutter by running the following command in terminal:
flutter upgrade --force
--force option is not available for all flutter versions. If someone comes here with an old flutter version, try without --force flagFirst, update the Gradle version in build.gradle file in the root of android folder to 3.5.1.
Then update test dependencies in build.gradle file in the android/app/ directory to androidx as follws.
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:runner:1.2.0'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.2.0'
And update distributionUrl in android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties to
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.1.1-all.zip
Download a newver version of Flutter SDK from the Flutter official website and replace the old version on your hard drive with it. I worked for me.
flutter upgrade won't work, it doesn't even recognize the --force option. This is the best way forward, worked perfectly.
Download a newer version of Flutter SDK from https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install and replace the old version on your hard drive with it. I worked for me.
On Android Studio 4.0, try to create a new flutter project. And then install the new flutter SDK. It should fix this issue.
