How to run a Dart program without running simulator/emulator in Android Studio

Question

Is it possible to run this code in Android studio without firing up any device, I just want to print it to the console.

void main() {
  print("Hello World");
}

Note:

I am not looking for DartPad or any other online IDE to run Dart code.

Answer 1

in your Dart file right click on the green arrows in front of your main() function:

then click on the dart icon from the popup menuCreate ...

and then OK:

now you can run it without the simulator:

And get the console output in the Run window:

Answer 2

On a Unix-like system (e.g. Linux, macOS), if dart is in your executable PATH, you can add a shebang line to your .dart file:

#!/usr/bin/env dart

void main() {
  print("Hello World");
}

and mark your file executable (chmod a+x your_file.dart). Then you can run your_file.dart directly without needing to run dart your_file.dart explicitly.

(If the dart binary is not in PATH, then you would need to use #!/full/path/to/dart as the first line instead.)

On Windows, you could set up a file association for .dart files.