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2026-10-10 flutter dart flavors

What Is a Flutter Flavor, and How Is It Different from a Build Mode?

A build mode (debug, profile, release) decides how Flutter compiles your Dart code. A flavor (dev, staging, prod) is a native build variant you define in Gradle and Xcode that decides which app you ship. They are independent axes: 2 flavors times 3 modes is 6 builds. Verified on Flutter 3.44.8 with AGP 9.0.1, source checked against 3.47.7.

2026-09-07 flutter dart how-to

How to keep appFlavor populated after a hot restart when using flutter attach

flutter attach has no --flavor option, so the resident compiler it spawns never defines FLUTTER_APP_FLAVOR and the appFlavor const collapses to null on the first hot restart. Three fixes: default-flavor in pubspec.yaml, flutter run --use-application-binary, and a platform channel that reads the flavor natively. Verified on Flutter 3.47.2 / Dart 3.13.2.