Flutter Development on Windows

As I wrote earlier I’m doing Flutter Development on a Windows 10 machine.

The configuration of this machine is as follows :

• Intel i7-6600U @ 2.60GHz
• 16GB RAM
• 224 GB SSD
• AMD Radeon R7 M360 (2GB)

So on paper this looks impressive.

But it feels so sluggish.

But “feels” is very subjective. (My other machine is 10-year-old-MBP) So I decided to gather actual timing.

• Starting Visual Studio Code took > 1 minutes 51 seconds (After which I gave up) Gemini Assist was still not done loading. ¹ But even without it, it took > 1 minute
• Starting Android Emulator took : 1 minute 40 seconds
  • UI showed up after 7 seconds
  • Pixel is starting message after 1 minute 14 seconds
  • and Then I see System UI is not responding (I choose Wait ¯_(ツ)_/¯ )
• Starting Android Emulator (cold boot) took : 3 minutes 28 seconds
  • UI showed up after 43 seconds
  • Pixel is starting message after 1 minute 59 seconds
  • and Then I see System UI is not responding (I choose Wait ¯_(ツ)_/¯ )

In the mean time, VS Code reports

Failed to start Emulator. Could not connect in 60 seconds

Next stop, Launching the app in Emulator (“Run without Debugging”)

Time taken for the app to show up :

Build took 2 minute 11 seconds

App was ready after 2 minutes 52 seconds

So for the most part I’m just waiting 😢

The app has “QR scanning” functionality.

“Showing” the QR image to the Emulator takes a lot of patience (and luck)

Holding a QR image (on mobile) in front of PC’s camera till it is recognized is testing my patience.

I was lucky, I got it working two times in past.

I tried to use OBS Virtual Camera based onChatGPT’s suggestion, but Windows does not recognize the Virtual Camera (even though Virtual Camera has started in OBS correctly)

If you are Flutter developer, help me.

What am I doing wrong ?

Is the entire ordeal so slow ?

Please help!