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Simone Alessandria
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Simone Alessandria wrote his first program when he was 12. It was a text-based fantasy game for the Commodore 64. Now, he is a trainer (MCT), author, speaker, passionate software architect, and always a proud coder. He is the founder and owner of Softwarehouseit. His mission is to help developers achieve more through training and mentoring. He has authored several books on Flutter, including Flutter Projects, published by Packt, and web courses on Pluralsight and Udemy.
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Running your app on macOS

You can compile Flutter projects to native macOS, Windows, and Linux apps.

In this recipe, you will see how to run your app on a Mac, and solve a specific permission issue that prevents your code from retrieving data from the web.

Getting ready

Before following this recipe, you should have completed the app in the previous recipe, Creating a responsive app leveraging Flutter Web.

In order to develop for macOS with Flutter, you should also have Xcode and CocoaPods installed on your Mac, as described in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Flutter.

How to do it...

In order to run the app you have built on your Mac, implement the following steps:

  1. In a Terminal window, run this command:
     flutter devices
    
  2. In the list of devices returned by the command, make sure that macOS (desktop) now shows among the available devices.
  3. From your editor, choose macOS as your target and run the app, or in the Terminal...
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Simone Alessandria

Simone Alessandria wrote his first program when he was 12. It was a text-based fantasy game for the Commodore 64. Now, he is a trainer (MCT), author, speaker, passionate software architect, and always a proud coder. He is the founder and owner of Softwarehouseit. His mission is to help developers achieve more through training and mentoring. He has authored several books on Flutter, including Flutter Projects, published by Packt, and web courses on Pluralsight and Udemy.
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