In Flutter projects, the toolbar shows two separate device selectors

[khusantoy]

Description

In Flutter projects, the toolbar shows two separate device selectors:

• Left: "Select Device ↓" (standard Android Studio selector)
• Right: "[platform] (desktop/web/etc.) ↓" (Flutter's own target selector)

This is confusing and clutters the UI. The standard selector is unnecessary for pure Flutter projects.

Environment

• Android Studio / IntelliJ IDEA version: Android Studio Otter 3 Feature Drop | 2025.2.3
• Flutter plugin version: 89.0.0
• Flutter version: Flutter 3.38.9 • channel stable • https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git
  Framework • revision 67323de285 (10 days ago) • 2026-01-28 13:43:12 -0800
  Engine • hash 5eb06b7ad5bb8cbc22c5230264c7a00ceac7674b (revision 587c18f873) (10 days ago) • 2026-01-27 23:23:03.000Z
  Tools • Dart 3.10.8 • DevTools 2.51.1
• OS: macOS Tahoe 26.2

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a Flutter project
2. Look at the main toolbar
3. See two device dropdowns side by side

Expected behavior

Only one device selector (Flutter's target selector) should be visible by default.

Current workaround

Right-click toolbar → Customize Toolbar → Remove the standard "Device Selector" action.

Screenshot

[khusantoy]

Hey, any updates on this? Have any solution?

[khusantoy]

Should I have to reinstall Android Studio or clear caches?

[khusantoy]

Deleting the .idea folder solves this problem. After these actions - selecting a new project and opening this project window - I see a separate device selector for 2 or 3 seconds and then get this error #8729

[khusantoy]

Any updates on this?

[khusantoy]

Hey, is this in progess?

[khusantoy]

In the some project I have two device selector

[khusantoy]

Do you need idea.log file? @pq

[pq]

I'm not sure there's a better approach than removing the unwanted selector from the toolbar yourself. Even if we could suppress it's appearance programmatically, that's not really being a good plugin citizen. (It's not our contribution.) A better solution might come from Android Studio. Assuming it's true that in a Flutter project you never want the default one, they could not contribute it in that case.

[khusantoy]

So, does this issue belong to Android Studio?

[pq]

I think it'd be worth bringing up with them.

[khusantoy]

Thanks for your help