In many OSes, when the user launches a GUI app from a launcher (OSX dock for example) the shell used is not necessarily the user's default shell. The env variables they had set up won't be visible to that GUI app. When we then shell out to something like the flutter tool, it won't be able to detect the location of the android deve tools, or other things that we'd find on a PATH.
See related (Dart) code here: https://github.com/dart-atom/atom.dart/blob/master/lib/node/process.dart#L190.
In many OSes, when the user launches a GUI app from a launcher (OSX dock for example) the shell used is not necessarily the user's default shell. The env variables they had set up won't be visible to that GUI app. When we then shell out to something like the
fluttertool, it won't be able to detect the location of the android deve tools, or other things that we'd find on aPATH.See related (Dart) code here: https://github.com/dart-atom/atom.dart/blob/master/lib/node/process.dart#L190.