About this episode
Eric Seidel discusses his journey from Google to co-founding Shorebird and the challenges of Flutter app updates with CodePush.
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…
People in this episode
Host: Allen Wyma
Guest: Eric Seidel
Topics covered
- Flutter development
- Shorebird
- CodePush
- Dart language
- app updates
- Flutter ecosystem
Keywords
- Flutter
- Shorebird
- CodePush
- Dart
- app updates
- Eric Seidel
- Allen Wyma
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Flutter, Google, Shorebird
Products: CodePush
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