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How to Import a Flutter Project from GitHub?

Last Updated : 11 Feb, 2022
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Importing a project from GitHub is a very common practice of developers. When we want to get any project from an online source like GitHub then we can easily import or download it to our system. Sometimes, developers need to get the small module of application and if that module is available on GitHub then it would reduce the workload of developers. Generally, developers import the repository or project from GitHub so that they can contribute to that repository add their contribution to a repository. It can be easily done by creating pull requests in the repository. We can also import a flutter project from GitHub using the command line and the GitHub website. The developers who are familiar with a command-line may use the command line tool approach and others can use the GitHub website approach.

Importing a flutter project from github

Method 1: Using GitHub website

Step 1: Open the GitHub website.

Step 2: Open any Flutter project that you want to clone or import.

Open-Flutter-project

Step 3: Click the Code button and then click Download ZIP.

Click-on-download-ZIP

Step 4: After the zip file gets downloaded, extract it using Winrar or ZIP. 

Extracting-downloaded-zip-using-Winrar

Step 5: Now open the extracted folder and we get the same files and folders as of Git repository. We have successfully imported the flutter project.

 Open-the-extracted-folder

Method 2: Using Command-line

Step 1: Open Git Bash.

Open-Git-Bash

Step 2: Open the flutter project that we want to import.

Open-the-flutter-project

Step 3: Copy the URL and open Git bash to clone the repository.

 Open-Git-bash-to-clone-the-repository

Step 4: Type git clone URL to clone the repository and the URL is https://github.com/singhteekam/Whatsapp-Clone.git

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Step 5: The repository will be successfully cloned in the Lenovo folder. We can import it into any folder which we want. We have imported a flutter project into our system.

Repository-will-be-successfully-cloned


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