Flutter-Starter-Kit

Flutter Starter Kit

A Code on the Go template bundle that adds Flutter starter projects to the New Project screen, alongside the built-in core templates.

It contributes five templates, one per state-management approach:

Template	Directory	State management
Flutter Basic	FlutterBasic/	none (plain setState)
Flutter BLoC	FlutterBloc/	flutter_bloc
Flutter Provider	FlutterProvider/	provider
Flutter GetX	FlutterGetx/	get
Flutter Riverpod	FlutterRiverpod/	flutter_riverpod

Each generates a small, idiomatic Flutter project (a counter app) with pubspec.yaml, lib/ and analysis_options.yaml, substituting the app name and package name entered in the New Project dialog.

How it works

There is no code. The bundle is a .cgt file: a zip of the five directories plus templates.json, which Code on the Go reads directly. Install it under Preferences → Extensions Manager → Templates with the + button, and the five templates appear in New Project. Nothing to enable, no permissions.

Files ending in .peb are rendered by Pebble at project-creation time and lose the suffix; everything else is copied byte for byte. These templates use three expressions only: ${{APP_NAME}}, ${{APP_NAME | lower}} and ${{PACKAGE_NAME}}.

Building

The .cgt is never committed. The publish workflow generates it. To build one locally:

./scripts/build-templates.sh Flutter-Starter-Kit
unzip -l dist/flutter-starter-kit.cgt

See ../README.md for authoring guidance and the format reference.

This replaces the Flutter Templates plugin

Until ADFA-6252 these templates shipped as a plugin that built a .cgt on the device at activate() and registered it. The plugin is gone; the skeletons are unchanged.

If a device still has the old plugin installed, disable or uninstall it before adding this bundle. Both register the same five templates from unlinked sources, so each would appear twice. Disabling the plugin calls its deactivate(), which removes its copies.

Note on the Flutter SDK

This bundle scaffolds project files only — it does not install the Flutter or Dart SDK. Code on the Go does not yet ship an on-device Flutter toolchain, so building or running a generated project needs Flutter on a separate machine. Enter an app name that is a valid Dart package identifier (lowercase, no spaces — underscores are fine); it is lower-cased for the name: field in pubspec.yaml.

Credit

Original idea by Raju Kumar (ADFA-2599).

Contributed by RJ Ali <rjali3232@gmail.com> via the Code on the Go community submission process, rebuilt on the IDE's template system (ADFA-3857), and converted to a template bundle in ADFA-6252.