I had some similar initial issues getting it working (also suffered from the comedy issues with not being able to run Android Studio on modern JDK/JRE versions

I had some similar initial issues getting it working (also suffered from the comedy issues with not being able to run Android Studio on modern JDK/JRE versions due to JavaFX stuff being removed). After I'd faffed about and made it all work I must say that Flutter itself felt very nice. The hot-reload alone is enough to make you massively more productive. Dart is a perfectly reasonable language too, much nicer and better thought out than JavaScript, even with Typescript on top. Integers that are, for a start...