Unable to enable new device/platforms from the Flutter sidebar

Sometimes you only want to update the Android folder to a new version. In that case, you delete the old one and execute:

flutter create --platforms android .

This recreates the Android folder with the latest bits and pieces.
It would be a good addition to the visual panel or accessible via Ctrl + P.

This should be expanded to create Windows/iOS/Linux/Web folders as well, with their corresponding events.

It seems like something has regressed here, as it was previously implemented:

I wonder if it broke during the switch to DTD. I will investigate.

The devices to appear to be returned when DevTools calls getDevices over DTD:

<== {
	"jsonrpc": "2.0",
	"method": "Editor.getDevices",
	"id": 0
}
==> {
	"id": 0,
	"jsonrpc": "2.0",
	"result": {
		"devices": [
			{
				"category": "web",
				"emulator": false,
				"ephemeral": false,
				"id": "chrome",
				"name": "Chrome",
				"platform": "web-javascript",
				"platformType": "web",
				"rawDeviceName": "Chrome",
				"supported": false
			},
			{
				"category": "web",
				"emulator": false,
				"ephemeral": false,
				"id": "edge",
				"name": "Edge",
				"platform": "web-javascript",
				"platformType": "web",
				"rawDeviceName": "Edge",
				"supported": false
			},
			{
				"category": "web",
				"emulator": false,
				"ephemeral": false,
				"id": "web-server",
				"name": "Web Server",
				"platform": "web-javascript",
				"platformType": "web",
				"rawDeviceName": "Web Server",
				"supported": false
			},
			{
				"category": "desktop",
				"emulator": false,
				"ephemeral": false,
				"id": "windows",
				"name": "Windows",
				"platform": "windows-x64",
				"platformType": "windows",
				"rawDeviceName": "Windows",
				"supported": false
			}
		],
		"type": "GetDevicesResult"
	}
}

So perhaps the issue is in the DevTools sidebar code. Oddly, if I enable Web from VS Code, then this happens:

Windows has appeared, but Android is still missing. Reviewing the above, Android is also missing - so perhaps there are bugs on both sides.

Ok, the reason Android doesn't show here is that there is no Android device selected. We only send actual devices, and a flag for whether they're enabled or not. This seems reasonable, the Android platform would show up to enable if an Android device was selected.

The reason that nothing shows up at first was because there's a logic error in DevTools that tried to only show the device list if there are some devices, but the not-enabled platforms was part of the same table. Working on a fix.

Fix unsupported devices not showing "Enable x" if there are no other …

Fix open at flutter/devtools#9428

Fix unsupported devices not showing "Enable x" if there are no other …

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DanTup commented on Sep 8, 2025

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