All language subtitles for 11. Windows Development Environmentf

Now which editor will I use then? I will use Visual Studio Code (VS Code)!
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You can get it from code.visualstudio.com.
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It's a free IDE which also has an extension that provides awesome Flutter support.
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You can download it from that page and it will automatically give you the right version for your operating
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system and you can simply walk through the installer.
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It's pretty straightforward.
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Nothing special about it.
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Simply install the IDE on your machine.
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Now once it did install it in your favorite location, you can start it and in the IDE, you can then click
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"Open Folder" or choose the "Open" option from the "File" menu in the top left corner and simply choose that
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"first_app" folder you created.
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Now this is your Flutter app.
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And in order to be able to work with that really well, we should add a so-called extension.
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So a plugin we can add to that IDE to add extra functionalities.
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You can install extensions by clicking on this icon on the left or selecting "View" => "Extensions" in the
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menu at the top and there simply search for "Flutter". Install that extension you find here.
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It's the official Flutter extension and it will also install the "Dart" extension together with it because
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that will be a dependency.
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And once it is installed you just need to restart the IDE to have that installed.
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Now I will use one extra extension for the course - and that's the "Material Icon" theme. That is not (!) related
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to Flutter development,
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I just like the Icon look I get with it,
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it's totally optional -
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I just want to show it here so that you don't wonder why my icons look different than the default
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icons.
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Once you install that - if you want it - you again can reload the IDE. And, with that, we can finally make a
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change to our Flutter code after I activate the new theme.
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You can see your Flutter code in the "lib" folder of the project you opened.
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And they're in "main.dart"
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file, you see the code which is responsible for the app which is currently running on the emulator
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there.
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Search the "_incrementCounter" method and in setState: Change
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"_counter++" to "_counter =_counter + 2".
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This should ensure that we actually increase the counter by two every time we hit the "plus" - not by one anymore.
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With that change made: Go back to the command prompt and make sure that the "flutter run" process is still
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running - don't quit it!
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You could quit it with "CTRL + C" (or by typing "quit").
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But as long as you are developing, you should keep it running because then you can hit "r" with that process
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running to hot reload your app, which means the changes you added are pushed into the app without the
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need for it to rebuild.
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Now sometimes, this fails. Then you can press "SHIFT-R" to do a full reload and a full rebuild. And you
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can quit that process with "CTRL + C" if you are done with development for the day.
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So I pressed "r" and if I go back to my emulator here, you can see that I can now increment by two instead
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of one. And this is our first little change.
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We will do much more of course but this is our Windows setup finished! It was quite a lot of work but now
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we are prepared to continue and dive much deeper into Flutter of course.