The Shorebird blog
Release notes, how-tos for shipping updates safely, and our take on where cross-platform development is headed.
Product updates 4 min read
Meet the enterprise console: your whole company's Shorebird setup in one place, with SCIM from Okta and Entra ID, organization members, contract billing, offboarding and one audit log.
Wesley Peck
Lead Product Manager
Product updates 2 min read
Shorebird now has one kind of organization. Your personal org works like any other org, and org membership replaces app collaborators.
Wesley Peck
Lead Product Manager
Product updates 5 min read
Service accounts give your release pipeline its own identity in your organization, with a fixed role and keys that keep working as your team changes. On GitHub Actions, you can drop the stored key entirely.
Abhishek Doshi
Developer Relations Engineer
Product updates 4 min read
Meet the enterprise console: your whole company's Shorebird setup in one place, with SCIM from Okta and Entra ID, organization members, contract billing, offboarding and one audit log.
Wesley Peck
Lead Product Manager
Product updates 2 min read
Shorebird now has one kind of organization. Your personal org works like any other org, and org membership replaces app collaborators.
Wesley Peck
Lead Product Manager
Product updates 5 min read
Service accounts give your release pipeline its own identity in your organization, with a fixed role and keys that keep working as your team changes. On GitHub Actions, you can drop the stored key entirely.
Abhishek Doshi
Developer Relations Engineer
Product updates 4 min read
A compromised certificate authority put apps that bundle their own trust list at risk. Here's how it affects Shorebird apps, and why every new release is now signed by default.
Wesley Peck
Lead Product Manager
Guides 6 min read
A close look at how Shorebird patches fail, what your users experience when they do, and what you can do about it.
Abhishek Doshi
Developer Relations Engineer
Flutter & industry 8 min read
WebView, server-driven UI, and Code Push all let you change your app without a new binary — but they solve different problems and fail in different ways.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Company 3 min read
Wesley joins Shorebird as Head of Product, bringing experience from EdTech to DevTools and a passion for empathy, strategy, and creativity.
Wesley Peck
Lead Product Manager
Company 3 min read
Introducing the first group of Shorebird Community Ambassadors, Flutter developers recognized for their content, mentorship, and advocacy worldwide.
Abhishek Doshi
Developer Relations Engineer
Guides 3 min read
A tour of the Shorebird Samples repository: real-world examples for flavors, progressive rollouts, add-to-app, and patchable business logic.
Abhishek Doshi
Developer Relations Engineer
Guides 4 min read
Learn how to disable Shorebird's automatic updates and take full manual control over when and how patches roll out to your users.
Abhishek Doshi
Developer Relations Engineer
Product updates 2 min read
Mission Control is a new home base for release and patch health: live rollout status, patch coverage, and fleet-wide adoption data in one view.
Mac Carrithers
Software Engineer
Product updates 3 min read
How Shorebird improved patch linking for Flutter 3.44+, cutting worst-case iOS slowdowns while keeping full native speed.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Flutter & industry 6 min read
The gap between "we wrote the fix" and "our users have the fix" is real security exposure, learn how Shorebird fixes this.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Company 4 min read
Flutter GDE and community voice Abhishek joins Shorebird full-time as Developer Relations Engineer.
Abhishek Doshi
Developer Relations Engineer
Product updates 4 min read
Shorebird's legacy CI tokens expire in September 2026, here's how to swap them for new API keys in five minutes.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Company 2 min read
Applications now open for the Shorebird Community Ambassador program
Dawn Parzych
Head of Marketing
Guides 4 min read
Adding Shorebird Code Push to your Flutter app from day one changes how your team ships
Tom Arra
Head of Operations
Flutter & industry 6 min read
Most frameworks optimize for the floor. Flutter optimized for the ceiling, and that changes everything.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Guides 4 min read
Learn why an N-1 upgrade strategy keeps your app secure, your dependencies healthy, and your team out of painful upgrade projects.
Tom Arra
Head of Operations
Product updates 4 min read
Shorebird CI is evolving from a hosted service into an open-source Dart package that makes GitHub Actions fully Flutter and Dart aware.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Product updates 5 min read
Shorebird CLI Is now agent-friendly: JSON Output, Read Commands & Non-Interactive Mode
Nick Weatherley
Software Engineer
Flutter & industry 5 min read
See why stripping down Chrome exposed the web's limits, and how owning the rendering stack gives you ultimate portability.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Flutter & industry 7 min read
Discover the true purpose of Flutter Web, its history, and the best alternatives for Dart on the web.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Flutter & industry 10 min read
Flutter vs. Kotlin Multiplatform: 2026 Architecture Guide
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Flutter & industry 11 min read
A clear look at Flutter vs .NET MAUI and the trade-offs that affect how your team builds and ships.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Flutter & industry 6 min read
The economics of development are changing. It's becoming cheaper to write code but more expensive to review and maintain.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Flutter & industry 9 min read
Discover why your codebase is actually your organization's core memory and the true value of cross-platform development.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Product updates 2 min read
New authentication service from Shorebird for flexible session management, scoped API keys, and audit logging.
Mac Carrithers
Software Engineer
Guides 2 min read
How Shorebird can help you prepare in case of an outage.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Product updates 2 min read
Whether you're targeting iOS, Android, or any other platform Shorebird supports, obfuscation works consistently across the board.
Brandon DeRosier
Software Engineer
Flutter & industry 11 min read
This guide breaks down the real trade-offs like scalability, maintenance, hiring, security, and long-term risk.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Flutter & industry 12 min read
How Flutter and React Native compare in 2026.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Flutter & industry 6 min read
Why 2026 should be the year you finally stop building the same software twice.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Flutter & industry 8 min read
7 characteristics of portable software: Why building once should be the default.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Flutter & industry 6 min read
Flutter is inevitable and growing, here’s why you should use it.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Product updates 2 min read
Business and Enterprise plan customers now have access to advanced permissions.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Company 3 min read
2025 brought with it new products, new team members, and new customers.
Dawn Parzych
Head of Marketing
Flutter & industry 5 min read
You shouldn't have to adapt your workflow for a tool. See what makes a great developer tool.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Company 3 min read
Introducing our new Marketing Lead.
Dawn Parzych
Head of Marketing
Company 2 min read
Shorebird has raised $3M to expand its suite of Flutter developer tools, including Code Push and Shorebird CI, making mobile iteration faster than ever.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Product updates 3 min read
Announcing a new service from Shorebird, zero config CI for Flutter and Dart applications.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Company 2 min read
A quick look back to see how we got to today and how we are building for tomorrow.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Guides 2 min read
Here’s a simple way to estimate usage—whether you ship once a month or every commit.
Tom Arra
Head of Operations
Guides 3 min read
Why this overlooked superpower gives Flutter teams the control they’ve been missing.
Tom Arra
Head of Operations
Product updates 2 min read
The easy way to start your next project with Shorebird.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Product updates 2 min read
Announcing the ability to create custom tracks.
Bryan Oltman
Founding Engineer
Product updates 3 min read
Updating Shorebird for the latest Flutter release and highlighting our favorite updates.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Company 2 min read
Join us June 25–26 to connect with the Flutter community in North America.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Product updates 2 min read
Yearly Plans for Shorebird designed to give you more flexibility and predictability as you build and scale your apps.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Product updates 4 min read
A deep dive into some of the recent backend infrastructure improvements we've made.
Felix Angelov
Founding Engineer
Company 1 min read
Announcing our redesigned site and refreshed branding.
Felix Angelov
Founding Engineer
Flutter & industry 3 min read
Learning from enterprise players that custom code deployment systems are valuable but a lot to maintain.
Tom Arra
Head of Operations
Company 2 min read
Starting the growth outside of just Engineering.
Tom Arra
Head of Operations
Product updates 1 min read
Announcing that desktop platforms are now production-ready.
Bryan Oltman
Founding Engineer
Product updates 1 min read
Announcing Shorebird Integration in Codemagic.
Felix Angelov
Founding Engineer
Flutter & industry 3 min read
Reacting to Google's decision to cancel Dart's "macros" feature.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Product updates 1 min read
Announcing the beta release of Windows desktop support.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Company 1 min read
Announcing online workshops to help you get started with Shorebird.
Felix Angelov
Founding Engineer
Product updates 1 min read
Announcing the beta release of macOS desktop support.
Bryan Oltman
Founding Engineer
Product updates 2 min read
Announcing Tracks, Percentage Rollouts and A/B testing.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Product updates 2 min read
Announcing the pre-release of pkg:shorebird_code_push v2.0.
Felix Angelov
Founding Engineer
Guides 1 min read
Announcing "Organizations" support for improved collaboration within teams.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Flutter & industry 7 min read
Advice on how to find or hire for a "Flutter job".
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Guides 1 min read
Announcing our opinionated development workflow guide.
Felix Angelov
Founding Engineer
Product updates 2 min read
Announcing improved global patch delivery, availability, and performance.
Felix Angelov
Founding Engineer
Product updates 2 min read
Announcing simplified pricing for Shorebird.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Guides 2 min read
How to view logs for an app without a debugger attached.
Bryan Oltman
Founding Engineer
Guides 2 min read
Troubleshooting when upgrading to Dart 3.5.0.
Bryan Oltman
Founding Engineer
Product updates 2 min read
Announcing support for rolling back patches.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Product updates 2 min read
Announcing Patch Signing for Shorebird Code Push.
Bryan Oltman
Founding Engineer
Flutter & industry 8 min read
Walk through of the changes made to Dart and Flutter in order to make code push work.
Eric Seidel
CEO and Founder
Product updates 1 min read
Announcing Shorebird Code Push 1.0 including stable support for iOS and how to get started.
Shorebird
The Shorebird Team
Product updates 2 min read
Shorebird Code Push for iOS beta announcement.
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The Shorebird Team
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