Cannot run flutter project in a subdirectory

[yyoon]

Steps to Reproduce

Open a parent directory which contains a flutter project in a subdirectory.
Create a run configuration with Flutter, and specify the the subdir/lib/main.dart as its entry point.

After creating this run configuration, it cannot be used to actually run, because the run button is disabled.

Version info

[✓] Flutter (on Linux, channel unknown)
    • Flutter at /usr/local/google/home/youngseokyoon/Programming/fuchsia/lib/flutter
    • Framework revision f613fef23b (2 hours ago), 2017-03-09 12:09:20
    • Engine revision 6e54f5e31f
    • Tools Dart version 1.23.0-dev.2.0

[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK 25.0.2)
    • Android SDK at /usr/local/google/home/youngseokyoon/Android/Sdk
    • Platform android-25, build-tools 25.0.2
    • ANDROID_HOME = /usr/local/google/home/youngseokyoon/Android/Sdk
    • OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_112-google-v7-146844476-143772575)

[✓] Android Studio (version 2.1)
    • Android Studio at /opt/android-studio-2.1
    • Gradle version 2.14.1

[✓] Android Studio (version 2.2)
    • Android Studio at /opt/android-studio-2.2
    • Gradle version 2.14.1

[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (version 2016.3)
    • Dart plugin version 163.13137
    • Flutter plugin version 0.1.11.2

[✓] Connected devices
    • Pixel C • 5C08000423 • android-arm • Android 7.0 (API 24)

[devoncarew]

Thanks for the report!

Currently we do expect to have one flutter project per IntelliJ module. So, your IntelliJ project can have one or more modules; each modules would have one flutter project, with the pubspec.yaml file in the root of the IntelliJ module.

We could potentially support other configurations (multiple flutter projects per IntelliJ module), but we find the above solution to be simple, and the convention means that less configuration is required.

If you open the directory containing lib/ do things work for you?

[yyoon]

I see. The "one project having multiple flutter module" model may not work very well for our situation. We have a project root directory, which contains various dev tools, test data, regular Dart packages, as well as flutter projects importing those Dart packages. I was hoping to run the flutter projects by just adding a new run configuration of type "Flutter" and specifying the main.dart and working directory.

And yes, if I open the flutter project directory as the root, then running the app seems to work fine.

[devoncarew]

OK, that's good data, thanks for letting us know. Not certain that we'll address this, but something we'll consider as we go.

[ianloic]

I think this is a blocker for using IntelliJ effectively in the Fuchsia tree. It will probably matter less once we have an SDK and do more development outside of the Fuchsia tree.

[devoncarew]

@ianloic, what's the best guide for getting set up to develop against the Fuchsia tree? I'd like to see what the layout of the source tree looks like.

[devoncarew]

Working reworking how we define Flutter modules in IntelliJ for the upcoming plugin release - it may help out with this issue.

[faisalmohd83]

Unsure if the issue linked to the same but Google/GitHub search ended up here.
I've tried building the Flutter project with Android Studio/VSCode/CLI, had not luck!
flutter doctor results well.

pasting my issue below

Multiple projects in this build have project directory

Digging more into the issue:

* Error running Gradle:
ProcessException: Process "/Users/%USER%/FlutterProjects/MovieDirect/android/gradlew" exited abnormally:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Multiple projects in this build have project directory '/Users/%USER%/FlutterProjects/MovieDirect/android': [:, :MovieDirect]

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 0s
  Command: /Users/%USER%/FlutterProjects/MovieDirect/android/gradlew app:properties

Please review your Gradle project setup in the android/ folder.

I've tried bunch solution like cleaning up the build folders, flutter clean, rm -rf android\.gradle etc.

Had been struggling with same from the last couple of days without any solution.
Would highly appreciate any input could lead to a solution.

[maelfosso]

I Have the same problem.
did you find any solution @faisalmohd83 ?

[zeeshannoor11786]

@faisalmohd83 @maelfosso any of you got solution ? I'm having same issue.

[faisalmohd83]

@maelfosso @zeeshannoor11786

Sorry guys, I've moved out of the project for a while.

[jschaf]

Related stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62827448/how-to-add-a-new-flutter-project-as-a-intellij-module-in-a-larger-project

[AlexV525]

This should no longer be an issue. Be aware lib/ is where the library can be accessed.