It’s All Widgets! Flutter Podcast

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. # FlexColorScheme - Pub: https://pub.dev/packages/flex_color_scheme - Docs: https://docs.flexcolorscheme.com - Themes: Playground https://rydmike.com/flexcolorscheme/themesplayground-latest # FlexSeedScheme - Pub: https://pub.dev/packages/flex_seed_scheme - Web demo: https://rydmike.com/flexseedscheme/demo-v3 # FlexColorPicker - Pub: https://pub.dev/packages/flex_color_picker - Web demo: https://rydmike.com/flexcolorpicker # Fluttercon Europe 2024 - Video: https://www.droidcon.com/2024/09/02/everything-material-all-at-once - Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-JH1vDJAjbj4XK-qb7le9hT7R-I_CW7THtPPUorJsTU/edit#slide=id.g2e9af2516a0_0_1300 # Flutter Vikings 2022 - Blog about the talk: https://rydmike.com/blog_vikings_2022_talk - Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5S8wyUAeto - Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1F7LXlMkD4Z5Eqkvw8uwMQBgBX52IiLqe3yODuakmLQo/edit#slide=id.p1 # Flutter App Theming - Flutter Nordics Meetup 2022 - Blog about the talk: https://rydmike.com/blog_m3_talk - Video part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Uz4ALs2kc&t=2940s - Video part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Uz4ALs2kc&t=7209s # Articles: - Adaptive theming guide: https://rydmike.com/blog_adaptive_theming_guide - Linting guide and comparison: https://rydmike.com/blog_flutter_linting - Flutter Squircle study: https://github.com/rydmike/squircle_study # Work plug - HypeHype: https://hypehype.com Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/1ixcdtc/the_latest_episode_of_the_its_all_widgets_flutter/

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. # Apache Pivot https://pivot.apache.org # Flutter 2024 Roadmap https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/docs/roadmap/Roadmap.md Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/1fckloa/new_episode_of_the_its_all_widgets_flutter/

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. # Before Flutter - Rubber Duck Engineering | Episode #100 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqGAC5QCYuQ # About https://handbook.shorebird.dev/ceo Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/1ec5gbq/the_latest_episode_of_the_its_all_widgets_flutter/

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. # Drumbitious https://drumbitious.com # Flutter DACH - The German-language Flutter Podcast https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/flutter-dach # Linktr.ee https://linktr.ee/verry_codes Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/1bp91js/latest_episode_of_the_its_all_widgets_flutter/

Senior Developer Relations Engineer on the Solutions team at Google. # Signals https://pub.dev/packages/signals # Previous Episode https://itsallwidgets.com/podcast/episodes/34/rody-davis # YouTube https://youtube.com/rodydavis # Medium https://medium.com/@rody.davis.jr Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/19caiee/new_its_all_widgets_podcast_episode_with_rody/

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. # How I became a Google Developer Expert for Flutter & Dart https://medium.com/@gianfrancopapa/how-i-became-a-google-developer-expert-for-flutter-dart-87d2e31aeb38 # mason https://pub.dev/packages/mason # Flutter Conf Latam in Medellin, Colombia https://flutterconflatam.dev # Somnio Software https://somniosoftware.com Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/16xw0hh/new_episode_of_the_its_all_widgets_flutter/

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. Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/12jv6ee/new_episode_of_the_its_all_widgets_flutter/

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). # Prism: Infrastructure to develop modular Flutter applications https://pub.dev/packages/prism_flutter_core # Flutterfest Meetup https://meetup.com/flutter-il/events/291796749 # State Management: Flutter vs. BLoC, RiverPods, MobX https://youtube.com/watch?v=RuYjbbtzMm4 # Lumen: Metabolism Tracker - Reset Your Metabolism https://lumen.me Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/11xedf0/new_episode_of_the_its_all_widgets_flutter/

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. Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/11d5010/new_episode_of_the_its_all_widgets_flutter/

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. # WeArePlay https://play.google.com/console/about/weareplay-us/#storyCards-NC # Adobe Flex https://flex.apache.org # Laravel https://laravel.com # Flutter Vikings https://fluttervikings.com

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! # Flutter Vikings https://fluttervikings.com # Flutter Community Plus Plugins https://plus.fluttercommunity.dev # State Management Slides https://slides.com/mhadaily/architectural-thinking-on-flutter-state-management # YouTube https://youtube.com/c/mhadaily

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. # Crafting Interpreters https://craftinginterpreters.com # Game Programming Patterns https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com # Tiny Wires https://youtube.com/channel/UCSMJ0iRwAhIFYSpntOEtn2g Thank you to the episode sponsor Stream • http://getstream.io/widgets

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. # Episode 30 https://itsallwidgets.com/podcast/episodes/30/chris-sells # Episode 28 https://itsallwidgets.com/podcast/episodes/28/martin-aguinis-chris-sells # Episode 26 https://itsallwidgets.com/podcast/episodes/26/ian-hickson-chris-sells # Episode 25 https://itsallwidgets.com/podcast/episodes/25/chris-sells # Flutter Version Manager https://github.com/leoafarias/fvm

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. # Mentorcruise https://mentorcruise.com/mentor/KamalS

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. https://youtube.com/channel/UCUDt0S0gfQJ4eLkx66ox5Jg Podcast producer: FLOSS Weekly (https://twit.tv/floss) InSightCruises News-es (https://podcast.insightcruises.com) Books authored/coauthored: Programming Perl (multiple editions) Learning Perl (multiple editions) Learning Perl on Win32 Systems Learning Perl Objects References and Modules (multiple editions) Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs with Perl Object Oriented Perl Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom Magazine articles and columns (over 250 total): UnixReview Magazine PerformanceComputing Magazine SysAdmin Magazine and Website WebTechniques Magazine and Website Linux Magazine and Website The Perl Journal E-Magazine Apple Developer Works Website Regular contributor to online forums: Gitter channels for Dart and Flutter stackoverflow.com perlmonks.org (The Perl Monastery) use.perl.org newsgroups comp.lang.perl.misc et. seq. newsgroup comp.lang.perl.announce (moderator since inception) perl.org mailing lists

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. # SciDart https://scidart.org # Special thanks to Juliano Polotto for making the SciDart logo https://linkedin.com/in/juliano-polotto-550ba379

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. # Batufo https://thlorenz.com/batufo # Talk about Progressive Web App Challenges https://youtu.be/bKxtwzr0sy0 # Handmade Hero https://handmadehero.org # Open Game Art https://opengameart.org # Stitches: Online Sprite Sheet Generator https://draeton.github.io/stitches # YouTube Playlist https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4k64WemroGlTDHJzVo_O1l6C0nuwRc6G # Flame https://pub.dev/packages/flame # Sprite Widget https://pub.dev/packages/spritewidget

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. # Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/users/8394265/r%C3%A9mi-rousselet # river_pod https://github.com/rrousselGit/river_pod # freezed https://github.com/rrousselGit/freezed # state_notifier https://github.com/rrousselGit/state_notifier # flutter_hooks https://github.com/rrousselGit/flutter_hooks

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. # YouTube Channel https://youtube.com/rodydavis # Medium https://medium.com/@rody.davis.jr #Patreon https://patreon.com/rodydavis Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/fzuhch/rody_davis_its_all_widgets_flutter_podcast/

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. # Supernova https://supernova.io # Flutter Interact '19 • Product Keynote https://youtube.com/watch?v=ukLBCRBlIkk&t=2591 # Product Hunt https://producthunt.com/posts/supernova-studio Discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/exr50g