Welcome to another episode of Flying High with Flutter! In this episode, we have Eric Seidel, the co-founder of the Flutter project and former lead of Flutter and Dart at Google, as our guest. Eric shares his journey from leading the Flutter and Dart teams at Google to starting his company, Shorebird, which aims to solve real challenges for Flutter developers.

We dive into the details of CodePush, Shorebird's flagship product, and how it enables seamless updates for Flutter apps. Eric also discusses the evolution of Flutter, the Dart language, and how Shorebird is building tools to enhance the Flutter ecosystem.

📌 Key Topics and Timecodes:

0:00 - Introduction

2:00 - Eric’s background: From Google to Shorebird

5:00 - How Flutter began

10:00 - Why Dart became the foundation for Flutter

20:00 - Introducing CodePush: Solving app update challenges

30:00 - Overcoming iOS and Android compliance hurdles

40:00 - Shorebird’s vision for empowering Flutter developers

50:00 - Future of Flutter

1:05:00 - Expanding to Harmony OS and others

1:10:00 - Closing thoughts

On the Show:

🎙️ Guest: Eric Seidel • https://twitter.com/_eseidel

🎙️ Host: Allen Wyma • https://x.com/allenwyma

Links and Resources:

🌐 Shorebird: https://shorebird.dev

🎥 Shorebird Demos on YouTube: @shorebird

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