Hot Reload about nativeshell

[knopp]

Hot reload works of course :)

You can attach Flutter debugger to running process (there are vscode launch configurations that do that automatically), after which you can hot reload the code.

[maxjoehnk]

Ah nice, than I‘ll have to figure out how to do this with IntelliJ as there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to attach to an external flutter process.
Is this also possible from the web ui? I didn’t notice it in the dart observatory and the flutter devtools don’t seem to be available. At least I haven’t found any references to it.

[knopp]

If you just want hot reload you can do it through command line. i.e.

flutter attach -v -d macos --debug-url=http://127.0.0.1:62935/tHQyjy6Zdeo\=/ --target=lib/main.dart

Debug URL is the printed observatory URL. I'm not sure how to access dev tools, I usually just launch it through the DartCode plugin. Also the documentation mentions attaching in intellij though I don't know if that works as expected.

[maxjoehnk]

Well I guess I should've RTFM.
That will definitely help me, as I only really need the hot reloading.
As far as I can tell the attaching via IntelliJ doesn't work because it requires knowledge of the "device" it's running on but I'll have to check that.
I will note it here if I can get it to work.

Thanks for the quick response!

[knopp]

I think the link I've sent mentions selecting the device before arraching. But it is possible that the intellij plugin doesn't recognize NativeShell project and won't let you select the desktop device.