How to `flutter run` with target device as android?

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Solution 1

flutter -v -d your_android_device run selects the target device to run on.

Solution 2

Check that your device is recognized using flutter devices (or flutter doctor -v). If so, you can specify the device id you using flutter run -d <deviceID>.

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TheWaterProgrammer

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Updated on December 01, 2022

Comments

TheWaterProgrammer over 1 year
I have my flutter app built and running on macOS using the following command.
```
flutter run
```
This is great.
Now, I want to run my app on an Android device. It has developer mode enabled and getting recognised when I run adb devices. I have also run other apps on my Android device. So, I am sure the android device is well set for android development.

But now when execute flutter run, my app still runs on macOS instead of Android device. I did a flutter build apk which built my app for android. But, flutter run still runs on Mac instead of Android.

Isn't there a flutter run command to run the build on Android specifically?
- pskink over 3 years
  
  what does flutter devices command show?
- TheWaterProgrammer over 3 years
  
  flutter devices showed that my device was not authorised. This was stupid. I had it authorised for multiple other run sessions. But, your suggestion got me to find the root cause of my problem. Please feel free to post an answer and I can accept it.
- TheWaterProgrammer over 3 years
  
  Additionally, if there is a command to select flutter run's target as Android, I would like to know that. That was my original question as well.
- pskink over 3 years
  
  flutter -v -d your_android_device run (-v is optional: it stands for "verbose")
pskink over 3 years

btw you dont have to pass the whole device_id - you can shorten it to few letters
TheWaterProgrammer over 3 years

Ah. Thats even better!
pskink over 3 years

actually i checked that even one letter is enough (if it selects one device of course) ;-)
Jurgen De Jonghe over 2 years

The device id can be found by the command flutter devices, iti is the second column in the list