Flutter plugin crash in Android Studio Meerkat – Cannot create extension FlutterStudioProjectOpenProcessor

[ahmedtalaatelsahy]

What happened: I encountered a crash when opening a Flutter project in Android Studio Meerkat (2024.3.1 Patch 1). The IDE showed an error message related to the Flutter plugin failing to initialize a component. I wasn’t doing anything special—just opening a Flutter project.

Steps to reproduce:

Open Android Studio Meerkat (2024.3.1 Patch 1)

Open any Flutter project

Observe crash dialog Android Studio Meerkat | 2024.3.1 Patch 1
Flutter plugin: io.flutter 85.0.4
Dart plugin: 243.23654.44

com.intellij.diagnostic.PluginException: Cannot create extension (class=io.flutter.editor.FlutterStudioProjectOpenProcessor) [Plugin: io.flutter] at com.intellij.serviceContainer.ComponentManagerImpl.createError(ComponentManagerImpl.kt:989) ... Additional info:

Flutter SDK is not detected or failed to load

Plugin might be incompatible with this Android Studio version