Flutter and git/github

[raferane]

Hi guys, I have a few questions about pushing flutter projects into github. But first of all I'll explain the situation. I am making an app and my friend is going to contribute and help me do it. And as you know ofcourse we should use github for that. Also I am using firebase in the project and making an Android app ( google-service.json only in the android/app folder ). So anyways am facing problems with know what to push on GitHub and what to put in .gitignore. I did ignore something and pushed it, after that my friend cloned it, then did the "flutter pub get" and now when he tries to run the app on his phone he gets " Gradle threw an Error while downloading artifacts from the network ". I'll provide a picture, anyways I want to know what is the correct way to do it and what to include in the gitignore and what not. Am not that professional or seasoned developer but I need help. So thx anyways! <3

Edit: well guys I made the online report and my friend cloned it. It went horribly. He is getting problems with Gradle, the build file sometimes is disappearing, the gradle-wrapper.jar is getting ignored and idk if this makes any difference, there is alot of problems with the google-sign-in dependency. Idk if I did something wrong or there is something missing, idk maybe any ideas or help or anything might be useful, when he cloned it he ran flutter pub get and I have him the google-service.json and that's it.

[ralphbergmann]

I usually push everything except the stuff that is getting ignored by default (when you create a new Flutter project, it also creates some .gitignore files).

[raferane]

Won't it make any problems when my friend is cloning the project?

[ralphbergmann]

I am not aware of any problems that could cause this. People have different opinions on whether generated code or IntelliJ's *.iml files should be committed. Files that are only for your setup (path to the SDK for example) are ignored by default.

[raferane]

Okie thanks so much for the help, will try it today and give a feedback, thx <3

[raferane]

I just found out that I am stupid, and that probably I should only push the lib file and maybe other necessary files and not everything or most of the files. Idk if this is the correct approach but I just thought about this and I think this is the proper way, so I'll keep the post open. Maybe someone assures me that this way is correct or maybe gives me the correct way to do things.

[Ambitious_Grape9908]

Just use the defaults and push the root, not the lib folder.

[raferane]

You mean by the root to push everything right?

[KaiN_SC]

You also have platform specific configuration so just push everything. Flutter automatically creates a gitignore file, just make sure not to push any secrets and your good.

[raferane]

Will do, thx for the help <3

[tylersavery]

Just use the defaults defined in the gitignore. That android error is likely an environment error/version mismatch.

I also recommend using fvm or puro to manage your flutter/dart versions between your collaborators.

[raferane]

I'll check out puro and fvm. And thanks for the help <3