Unable to open Flutter project in Android Studio

[khusantoy]

Description

I'm unable to open my Flutter project in Android Studio. When I try to open the project, nothing happens - no error message, no crash, Android Studio simply doesn't respond or open the project.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open Android Studio
2. Click on "Open an Existing Project" or "File > Open"
3. Select the Flutter project directory
4. Nothing happens - no project opens, no error dialog appears, Android Studio remains on the welcome screen or current state

Environment

• Android Studio Version: Android Studio Otter 2 Feature Drop | 2025.2.2 Patch 1
• Flutter Version:
  Flutter 3.38.7 • channel stable • https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
  Framework • revision 3b62efc2a3 (2 days ago) • 2026-01-13 13:47:42 -0800
  Engine • hash 6f3039bf7c3cb5306513c75092822d4d94716003 (revision 78fc3012e4) (7 days ago) • 2026-01-07 18:42:12.000Z
  Tools • Dart 3.10.7 • DevTools 2.51.1
• Operating System: MacOS Tahoe 26.2

[bernardolansing]

Downgrading the plugin to 88.1.0 seems to have solved it for me.

[biplobsd]

If the project doesn’t include the .idea folder, it won’t open, but using the command line it opens without any errors.

"C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\bin\studio64.exe" "<PROJECT_PATH>

[helin24]

I'm able to reproduce this problem on Android Studio but not when I'm running workbench. @jwren should this be combined with #8661?

[khusantoy]

@helin24 Hi, I'm still experiencing this issue after the recent commits.
What should I do to resolve it? Should I:

• Wait for the next Flutter/plugin update?
• Downgrade to a specific version?
• Use any temporary workaround?

Thanks for your help!

[helin24]

Does your project not have a .idea directory? If that's the case, you may be able to open it in intellij instead of android studio the first time, then open in Android studio subsequently as the first open will generate the directory.

If your project already has a .idea directory, I wonder if you could send it to me? It would be nice to compare. In that case it seems like downgrading to 88.1 for now would be reasonable.

[khusantoy]

@helin24 My Flutter project didn't have a .idea folder. I opened it in IntelliJ first and it created the .idea directory. Then I could open it in Android Studio without any issues

[jwren]

The comments above were helpful in figuring out the root issue here, thank you. I believe that it will be resolved with #8710. Closing this as a duplicate of #8661

[VladyslavBilomeria]

Until there is a new version of the plugin, as a quick workaround, it is enough to manually create an empty .idea folder in the root of the project and after that Android Studio was able to open it successfully. At least in my case

[yaochangliang159]

@helin24 My Flutter project didn't have a .idea folder. I opened it in IntelliJ first and it created the .idea directory. Then I could open it in Android Studio without any issues

it is works for me!!!!!!!!!

[helin24]

Until there is a new version of the plugin

Note for anyone following - this is fixed in v89.