Flutter Podcast | It's All Widgets!

Mike Rydstrom

Mike Rydstrom, known in Flutter circles as MaterialMike, has established himself as a leading expert in Material design within the Flutter ecosystem. He is the author of the FlexColorScheme package, a popular open-source package for theming Flutter applications using its visual configurator, the Themes Playground. Mike Rydstrom is an active member of the Flutter community, sharing knowledge through talks and online platforms, like X/Twitter and BlueSky. In the Flutter GitHub repo he is also known for his detailed issue reports, often about Material components and theming. In this podcast we meet Mike, where he tells us about his Flutter journey, how his packages were born and what problems they solve. We also hear a bit about Mike's background in management roles in multinational corporate IT and business systems development, as well as his research background in bio-process engineering.

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Todd Volkert

Todd Volkert (@VolkertTodd) has been on the Flutter team for 10 years and is currently the director of engineering for Flutter, working from Google’s office in Sunnyvale. He joined Google in 2010 after twelve years leading engineering teams at companies such as VMware and FOXSports. In his spare time, he enjoys photography, attending his kids’ sporting and music events, playing as an amateur carpenter, and tutoring students in STEM subjects.

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Eric Seidel

Eric is the founder and CEO of Shorebird. Shorebird makes code push for Flutter. Before Shorebird, Eric co-founded the Flutter project and lead Flutter and Dart at Google.

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Verry

Verry is a Flutter freelancer and an active member of the Flutter community. She has a master's degree in computer science and has been working professionally as a software engineer for more than 12 years now. In her free time, she manages the German-speaking Flutter DACH community and works on her drum practice app called 'Drumbitious'—of course, built with Flutter.

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Rody Davis

Senior Developer Relations Engineer on the Solutions team at Google.

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Gianfranco Papa

Gianfranco Papa is the CTO & Co-Founder of Somnio Software, a company that specializes 100% in Flutter, based in Uruguay. He is also a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Flutter & Dart and co-organizer of the Flutter Montevideo Meetup, a group of Flutter enthusiasts and professionals, dedicated to helping grow the community of this technology both in Uruguay and around the world! As an engineer, he considers himself very passionate about technology in general, but he is especially focused on Flutter and Dart. After working with this technology since its launch, he deepened his expertise in it to become a specialist and provide the best and most innovative solutions to their partners in their projects.

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Mike Hearn

Mike Hearn wrote his first GUIs in Pascal for MS-DOS and now leads Hydraulic, a company dedicated to making it easy to ship apps outside the browser. Between 2006-2014 he worked on Gmail, Google Maps and developed Google's primary bot-fighting system, he was one of the earliest Bitcoin developers, he helped make Internet Explorer and games run on Linux via his work on Wine, and has developed several open source libraries. He lives in Zürich, Switzerland.

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Ariel Ben Horesh

Ariel is a Mobile Architect at Lumen. Currently specializing in Flutter development, he has vast experience in mobile technologies such as native iOS, Android and other Cross Platform solutions. A recognized team and community leader (Flutter IL, .NET User Group, ALT.NET). Ariel is also a renowned speaker and had spoken at various conferences around the world (NDC, Øredev, BuildStuff, Microsoft Build and more).

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Viktor Lidholt

Viktor is the founder and lead developer of Serverpod, a newly released open-source backend written in Dart for the Flutter community. With a master’s in computer science and over 20 years of industry experience, Viktor has a solid background in software engineering. Before starting Serverpod, he worked at Google’s Flutter team in Silicon Valley. He has held talks and taught guest lectures on programming, app creation, and computer graphics at international conferences and universities such as MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and UC Berkeley.

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Dan Gardner

Dan Gardner: software developer and accidental entrepreneur. Back in 2008 he needed to learn PHP/MySQL so he built a web application called RunPee.com. (It tells you the best time to run and pee during a movie without missing the best scenes.) The website became an international success and has evolved into a mobile application and business that has supported him and his family for the past 13+ years. In 2020 he and his wife rebuilt the RunPee app from scratch using Flutter. They both love the framework and continue to use it in freelance work today.

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Majid Hajian

Majid is a Google developer expert and passionate software developer with years of developing and architecting complex web and mobile applications. His passions are generally Flutter, PWA, and performance. He is an award-winning book author at Apress and instructor at PacktPub/Udemy and Pluralsight. He loves sharing his knowledge with the community by writing and speaking, having workshops and video tutorials, contributing to open source, and organizing meetups and events. He is also the organizer of several big Nordic conferences and meetups such as FlutterVikings!

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Bob Nystrom

Bob Nystrom is a software engineer working on the Dart programming language. Before falling in love with programming languages and compilers, he was a game developer, UI programmer, pixel artist, and computer animator. He is the author of "Crafting Interpreters" and "Game Programming Patterns," a college dropout, and a fairly decent cook.

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Chris Sells

Before joining Google, Chris was a contributing member of the Windows developer community for more than 20 years, including 3 years at Intel and 8 years at Microsoft. He’s written a number of books in this area and still maintains a blog that he started in 1995 about his various technical adventures, although he’s more active on Twitter these days. At Google, Chris is the Product Manager responsible for the Flutter developer experience.

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Kamal (whatsupcoders)

Google Developer expert in Flutter and Software developer with 11 years of experience in Web Technologies, Android and recently, Flutter. I have worked for multinational firms in India, the Netherlands and US, I'm a youtuber, mentor at Mentorcruise and currently working on various open-source technology and leading communities.

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Randal L. Schwartz

Randal L. Schwartz is a renowned expert on the Perl programming language, having contributed to a dozen top-selling books on the subject, and over 250 magazine articles. Schwartz is a Dart/Flutter Google Developer Expert, providing assistance and training. Schwartz runs a Perl training and consulting company (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc of Portland, Oregon), and is a highly sought-after speaker for his masterful stage combination of technical skill, comedic timing, and crowd rapport. Schwartz hosted the successful FLOSS Weekly podcast, covering Free/Libre Open Source Software by interviewing the project leaders and legends in the industry. Schwartz serves on the LinuxFund Board, and formerly served on the boards of the Perl Institute and Squeak. And he's a pretty good Karaoke singer, winning contests regularly.

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Angelo Polotto

Angelo is an Electronic Engineer who decided to change his career to be a Mobile Developer. With experience in iOS, Android and Xamarin development, He found in Flutter an amazing opportunity to make beautiful apps with a concise UI on multiple devices. He started the SciDart project in 2019. The main motivation of SciDart is to create a multiple platform Scientific Library with Dart.

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Thorsten Lorenz

Thorsten is a Jazz musician turned developer and is excited about Node.js and its community. The fast turnaround from idea to working module has proven addictive for him and led to lots of modules which ended up on github and/or npm. In his free time he builds all kinds of things, including games, recently in Flutter and most recently in Rust. Thorsten is @thlorenz on twitter and streams development of his projects on his twitch channel at twitch.tv/thlorenz. He currently works at Cypress.io.

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Remi Rousselet

Deeply in love with Flutter, Remi spends a lot of time exchanging with the flutterverse. He particularly stands out as the author of provider, flutter_hooks, or his contributions StackOverflow.

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Rody Davis

Full stack mobile developer based out of San Francisco, CA working with Flutter full time. Professionally I build multiple B2B apps for the mortgage industry all in Flutter, on my own I create lot of plugins and regularly write native iOS and Android code for the plugins. I started as an iOS dev and then android. I have the most popular world wide pitch pipe on the App Store and Apple Watch. I love talking with people and building connections.

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Jiri Trecak

Jiri Trecak is a CEO of Supernova, development platform shown at Flutter Interact, aiming to automate the boring and tedious tasks in the software creation process. Before starting Supernova, Jiri developed over 70 mobile apps and websites, loves running and traveling and currently lives in the Czech Republic.

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Maureen Josephine

A software developer interested in developing both mobile and web applications geared towards making work easier and creating a positive impact, currently working with Carepay Limited in Kenya. Developed interest in Flutter from 2018 to date and working towards improving the Flutter Tech community in Kisumu in collaboration with GDG Kisumu. I believe in Flutter and future of Flutter is great!!!

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Ciprian Turcu

Software Developer, administrator and associate of @doxtitech

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Chris Sells

Before joining Google, Chris was a contributing member of the Windows developer community for more than 20 years, including 3 years at Intel and 8 years at Microsoft. He’s written a number of books in this area and still maintains a blog that he started in 1995 about his various technical adventures, although he’s more active on Twitter these days. At Google, Chris is the Product Manager responsible for the Flutter developer experience.

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Eric Windmill

Eric Windmill is a professional Dart developer, a contributor to open-source Flutter projects, and the author of FlutterByExample.com. His work is featured on Flutter's own showcase page.

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Martin Aguinis & Chris Sells

Martin Aguinis leads Marketing for Flutter. He is part of the Google Developer Marketing group based in Mountain View, California. Before Flutter, Martin founded his own companies and also worked in the YouTube team on Virtual Reality. Martin is originally from Buenos Aires and loves to travel.

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Kevin Moore

Product Manager for @dart_lang and @FlutterDev web tech.

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Ian Hickson & Chris Sells

Ian "Hixie" Hickson is the author and maintainer of the Acid2 and Acid3 tests, the WHATWG HTML 5 specification, and the Pingback specification, and the early working draft of Web Applications 1.0. He is known as a proponent of Web standards, and has played a crucial role in the development of specifications such as CSS. Hickson was a co-editor of the CSS 2.1 specification and is one of the original co-creators of Flutter.

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Chris Sells

Before joining Google, Chris was a contributing member of the Windows developer community for more than 20 years, including 3 years at Intel and 8 years at Microsoft. He’s written a number of books in this area and still maintains a blog that he started in 1995 about his various technical adventures, although he’s more active on Twitter these days. At Google, Chris is the Product Manager responsible for the Flutter developer experience.

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Tino Kallinich-Friedrich

Tino is a certified ships mechanic and has studied at the University of Wismar / Germany. Here he received a nautical diploma. Now he is a student of computer science at University of Karlsruhe / Germany. I his own words he is a Flutter beginner.

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Emily Fortuna

Emily Fortuna is a developer advocate on the Flutter team at Google. When not educating people about the awesomeness of Flutter, she can be found working on improving fairness in machine learning or acting on the stage and screen. She is an avid member of the nerdy joke appreciation society. Please reach out to her if you're interested in presenting about Flutter and want a nudge!

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Matt Sullivan

Matt works for Google on the Flutter team and is a pretty lucky guy: he gets to spend his days rummaging around Flutter, building apps, and messing around making YouTube videos. Seriously, that's his job.

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Pavan Podila

Been a Frontend Engineer for 15+ years. Worked on a variety of Platforms, Frameworks ranging from Java, .Net, macOS, iOS, React, Angular, Web and of late Dart and Flutter :-). I am a published author, speaker and mentor. Created QuickLens, a macOS app for UI Designers and Developers. Recently, started mobx.dart, a port of MobX from the JavaScript world to dart and flutter. MobX is a supercharged state-management library that drastically simplifies the experience of dealing with the reactive-state of your application.

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Nilay Yener

Nilay works at Flutter DevRel team as a program manager, mostly working with communities and events. She likes talking to people. If you are interested in running a Flutter event, want to be a Flutter GDE or have questions, reach out to her on Twitter!

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Muhammed Salih Güler

Salih is a Berlin based Android & Flutter Developer who follows all the cutting edge technologies for the mobile world. He also likes sharing his knowledge with the people by mentoring aspiring developers, creating study groups and blogging.

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Oluwatobi Akinpelu

In everything I do, I believe in creativity and growing into excellence. The way I do this is by creating products and contents that are useful, beautiful and easy to use. I happen to create mobile apps! Currently an Android developer at Farmcrowdy Limited (No. 1 startup in Nigeria). I have 4 years experience developing Android apps, and I'm super excited to be part of the first people to launch an Android and iOS app using flutter in Nigeria.

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Harish Balasubramanian

An avid 14 year old app developer using flutter and built piano exam prep, piano exam prep lite, community Seva and most recently Palam an educational platform for teachers and students currently being used by a medical professor for a class at UC Davis. Harish is currently in 9th grade and a self taught app developer.

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Simon Lightfoot

Simon loves Flutter and believes its the future of Mobile development. Co-founder Flutter Study Group on Slack. He's been writing code for 18+ years, of which the last 10 years has been professional Android development. He discovered Flutter in Oct 2017 and since then has not looked back.

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Remi Rousselet

Deeply in love with Flutter, Remi spends a lot of time exchanging with the flutterverse. He particularly stands out with his presence on StackOverflow, with well over 500 answers to Flutter questions.

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Scott Stoll

Scott is the organizer of GDG Cleveland & NE Ohio Flutter Developers Meetup, co-founder of the Flutter Study Group Slack and an editor for Flutter Community on Medium. He is also the creator of “#HumpDayQandA” (A.K.A. “FlutterQandA”). He is fond of travel and available for talks, workshops and “Kickstart” training intended to get a team productive with Flutter in only a few days.

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Norbert Kozsir

Student. Discovered Flutter in January 2018, been releasing a bunch of articles and open source packages since then. Currently involved in building a Flutter desktop embedder & experimenting with the idea of a Flutter IDE.

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Martin Aguinis

Martin Aguinis leads Marketing for Flutter. He is part of the Google Developer Marketing group based in Mountain View, California. Before Flutter, Martin founded his own companies and also worked in the YouTube team on Virtual Reality. Martin is originally from Buenos Aires and loves to travel.

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Parth Jansari

Parth is a guy who is trying to grow up and do mature stuff and work but ends up designing, playing games (most of the time) or watching Movies/TV Series. Parth has lots of experience in designing user interfaces & front-end development. Parth uses Angular for Creating frontend, ionic and Flutter to create hybrid apps. Parth has mastery over some of the adobe creative suite apps.

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Jorge Coca

Spanish engineer lost in Chicago. I am the organizer of the Chicago Flutter Meetup. I work for the BMW Group, where we craft the Android apps for BMW, MINI and Rolls Royce. When I am not coding, you’ll likely find me playing guitar, and trying to sing at the same time, although we can all agree that singing is not one of my strengths!

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Darshan Kawar

An Android Test Engineer turned Developer. Currently working as Flutter Dev for a startup and enjoying each and every day I spend learning, exploring and implementing features using Flutter. I like to write articles on new things I learn on Flutter and occasionally publish articles on sports websites on Cricket.

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Bhavik Makwana

I am a Google Certified Associate Android Developer, Having 1.5+ years of experience and now a Flutter enthusiast, I love creating projects and making it open source. Also, love to speak what I know about.

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Luke Pighetti

Hello! I am an accidental altcoin founder who became a software developer through trial by fire. I love Flutter, Typescript, ReactiveX, and Oxford commas.

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Burhanuddin Rashid

I am open source enthusiast from India, Currently working as an Application developer at Technogise in Pune. I have been working on Android and kotlin from past 3.5 years and Exploring flutter as well. I am movie freak and big-time Marvel and game of throne fan. I try to learn and share my knowledge by writing on medium or speaking at conferences.

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Rohan Taneja

Rohan is a mobile apps enthusiast who loves talking about the latest in the mobile world, with Flutter being his most recent love affair. He works as a Software Engineer at Delivery Hero in Berlin. He talks about Flutter at conferences, writes blogs on Medium and mentors students on various e-learning platforms.

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Omar

A computer developer and entrepreneur currently occupied with ventures in the ed tech space with over 8000 subscribed students, the home automation space with over 5000 completely automated homes using wireless switches and a Flutter app to control them from anywhere in the world, and the blockchain space with an upcoming cryptocurrency exchange in Canada

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GroovinChip

I'm 26 and I like to make flutter apps in my free time. By day I'm a COBOL developer. I'm married with a 2 year old, and I teach guitar in the evenings.

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Raouf Rahiche

Freelance Software Developer interested in desktop and mobile app development embarcadere MVP since 2015 and now Flutter/Dart enthusiast

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Marco Napoli

Marco is the founder of Pixolini, Inc. an iOS, Android, Web, Windows, Enterprise and Client Server Development Company. Marco wrote his first native iPhone app in 2008. The current focus is on mobile app development especially iOS, Android, Web, and Desktop. Marco founded MLN Enterprises, a Software Development company for Mortgage Banking, Processing, and Marketing. MLN was bought out by his largest competitor. Cannot code without Espresso, Cappuccino, Coffee and loves Martial Arts. Did I forget to mention I really need caffeine?

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