Why is my settings file missing if I copied and pasted my entire project folder?-CodePudding

I copied/pasted my project folder from my desktop to my laptop and installed most of the things needed, like the Android SDK, flutter, and the dart sdk. However, when I try to run my app, it gives an error:

Starting Gradle Daemon...
Gradle Daemon started in 2 s 402 ms

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Executing Gradle tasks as part of a build without a settings file is not supported. Make sure that you are executing Gradle from a directory within your Gradle project. Your project should have a 'settings.gradle(.kts)' file in the root directory.

Why would this file be missing if I copied the whole project root folder?

CodePudding user response：

In terminal run

flutter run

In the root directory of the project..

Or if you are using VS Code try

f5 key to start debugging. Or in case of android srudio you should be seeing a play button to run it as a flutter project.

CodePudding user response：

The problem was that I was hitting the play button while the configuration was set to something other than main.dart.