仅进行Flutter移动开发是否需要安装Visual Studio？

问题背景 #

正在搭建Flutter（Electric Eel版本）环境，目前仅需开展移动开发工作，纠结是否有必要安装Visual Studio——因其占用大量存储空间，但Flutter Doctor提示它是Windows开发的必需项。请问不安装Visual Studio是否可行？会对我的Flutter环境造成影响吗？

附上Flutter Doctor检测结果：

Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[√] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.3.10, on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.1105], locale en-US)
[√] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 33.0.1)
[X] Chrome - develop for the web (Cannot find Chrome executable at .\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe)
! Cannot find Chrome. Try setting CHROME_EXECUTABLE to a Chrome executable.
[X] Visual Studio - develop for Windows. 
    X Visual Studio not installed; this is necessary for Windows development.
    Download at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/.
    Please install the "Desktop development with C++" workload, including all of its default components
[√] Android Studio (version 2022.1)
[√] Connected device (2 available)
[√] HTTP Host Availability

! Doctor found issues in 2 categories.

解答 #

• 完全可以不安装Visual Studio，不会对你的移动开发工作造成任何影响。
• Flutter Doctor中关于Visual Studio的报错，仅针对Windows桌面应用开发场景，和Android/iOS移动开发没有关联。你的Android工具链已经配置正常（显示[√]），满足移动开发的全部需求。
• 同理，Chrome未安装的报错也仅影响Web开发，纯移动开发时可直接忽略。
• 若后续需要开发Windows桌面应用，再安装Visual Studio即可，届时需勾选「使用C++的桌面开发」工作负载及所有默认组件。

内容的提问来源于stack exchange，提问作者user14823524