How to autocomplete/import Flutter classes in IntelliJ?

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In IntelliJ, I have to manually import Flutter packages at the top of the file in order for auto-complete to work elsewhere in the file.

I was rather hoping I could start typing something (in a method) and IntelliJ would search my pubspec.yaml and locally within my project and suggest classes I might want. If I selected something that wasn't already imported, it should import it for me.

This basic functionality is available in many other languages and IDEs, so I'm wondering if I've got something misconfigured. I'm using IntelliJ 2018.2 with the latest Flutter and Dart plugins installed.

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1 Answers

This is a known issue.

For performance reasons the DartAnalyzer was built to only load libraries that were imported anywhere in the projects code already. The overall performance of DartAnalyzer was improved a lot since then and it would now allow to provide better suggestions, but it seems there weren't enough resources available yet to get it implemented.

Upvote and follow https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/25820

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