How to include images in your Flutter app

This is a repost of an answer I wrote on Stack Overflow.

I originally wrote this answer when I was learning how to add images to my Flutter project. Check out the documentation, but in case you need a little more step-by-step help, keep reading.

1. Create an assets/images folder

assets/images folder

• This should be located in the root of your project, in the same folder as your pubspec.yaml file.
• In Android Studio you can right click in the Project view
• You don’t have to call it assets or images. You don't even need to make images a subfolder. Whatever name you use, though, is what you will register in the pubspec.yaml file.

2. Add your image to the new folder

• You can just copy your image into assets/images. The relative path of lake.jpg, for example, would be assets/images/lake.jpg.

3. Register the assets folder in pubspec.yaml

• Open the pubspec.yaml file that is in the root of your project.
• Add an assets subsection to the…