52. 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. # 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/