How to change VS CODE's default emulator?

Question

I have installed flutter and Android iOS Emulator plugins on VS CODE, and this is the result of flutter emulators command inside the VS CODE's built-in terminal:

3 available emulators:
Nexus_5x       • Nexus_5x       • Google • android
Pixel_2_API_29 • Pixel 2 API 29 • Google • android
pixel_xl       • pixel_xl       • Google • android

To run an emulator, run 'flutter emulators --launch <emulator id>'.
To create a new emulator, run 'flutter emulators --create [--name xyz]'.

You can find more information on managing emulators at the links below:
  https://developer.android.com/studio/run/managing-avds
  https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/avdmanager

But the default emulator it selects in the right-bottom corner of the IDE is Chrome(web javascript). I wan to change the default choice to one of the Android emulators if is it possible?

Solution

There isn't really a "default" here, VS Code asks Flutter to monitor devices being connected/disconnected and usually selects the "last device connected" as they appear. If you have multiple devices available, the one selected will depend on the order they are discovered at startup.

If you're not using Flutter web for this project, I think there are two things that could help:

• run flutter config --no-enable-web to prevent Chrome being an available device at all (this is global)
• removing the web folder from your project (this would prevent Chrome being a valid device for this specific project)

Comments

[Viraj D]

click on that right bottom corner and a drop down list should appear where you can select all the emulator or simulators you have installed. You could have just looked it up on chrome instead of asking it here.

[user3486308]

@VirajD: I knew what you said, but wanted to change the default from Chrome to one of the Android emulators permanently!