Auto-select the flutter generator when invoking the new project wizard from the "New Flutter Project..." action

[csells]

I downloaded the latest version of Android Studio so I could play with the Gemini integration, but every time I try to generate a new Flutter project, I get something like this:

Android Studio version:

Android Studio Meerkat Feature Drop | 2024.3.2
Build #AI-243.25659.59.2432.13423653, built on April 29, 2025
Runtime version: 21.0.6+-13368085-b895.109 aarch64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Toolkit: sun.lwawt.macosx.LWCToolkit
macOS 15.4.1
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Concurrent GC, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 4096M
Cores: 12
Metal Rendering is ON
Registry:
  ide.experimental.ui=true
Non-Bundled Plugins:
  Dart (243.26753.1)
  io.flutter (85.3.1)

Flutter plug-in version: 85.3.1
Dart plug-in version: 243.26753.1

[pq]

Thanks Chris!

I took a quick crack at a repro and had no luck.

Here's what I had checked in the project creation wizard:

and the result:

What does your new project wizard content look like?

[mit-mit]

I wonder if this is a gradle issue based on the first screenshot? @csells in a terminal are you able to flutter create foobar & flutter build apk ?

[csells]

@mit-mit No problem with flutter create foobar & cd foobar & flutter build apk as shown here:

[csells]

@pq here's that video I promised. Let me know if there are some log files I can dig up for you or something. I'm on the latest version of AS, the Flutter + Dart extensions to AS and Flutter stable.

Screen.Recording.2025-05-22.at.6.43.22.PM.mov

[pq]

Hey Chris!

Watching your video at around 0:10, it looks like the project type selected when you invoke the "New Flutter Project..." action is actually Kotlin (which appears to mean vanilla Kotlin and not, as you might expect, a Flutter android project that uses Kotlin).

I see a similar default selection when I invoke "New Flutter Project..." but when I manually select "Flutter" from the generator list,

all works as expected.

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Implementation aside: digging into FlutterNewProjectAction we're just creating a NewProjectWizard so this is WAI:

  public void actionPerformed(@NotNull AnActionEvent e) {
    if (FlutterUtils.isAndroidStudio()) {
      System.setProperty("studio.projectview", "true");
    }
    NewProjectWizard wizard = new NewProjectWizard(null, ModulesProvider.EMPTY_MODULES_PROVIDER, null);
    NewProjectUtil.createNewProject(wizard);
  }

I do have to wonder if there isn't some way to select the Flutter generator our of the gate though (since that seems to be what folks would expect)?

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Thanks for the video, Chris! Let me know if this clears anything up for you!

[csells]

thanks, @pq. if I override the default and choose the Flutter generator after choosing New Flutter Project, I get a Flutter project. I don't know why that's not the default; it certainly should be.

[pq]

Ok, cool! I agree it's not the best behavior. I'm not sure if IntelliJ's NewProjectWizard gives us a good way to set the default but I've turned this into an enhancement request so we can loop back and check it out.

Cheers!