From fear to air: embracing over-the-air app updates
summary
Practical guide to shipping updates without App Store cycles: uses Crowdin, Firebase Remote Config and Intercom for text/content changes, shows Shortbird (code push) as a working over‑the‑air runtime but notes it cannot update native plugins, demonstrates a server‑driven approach with Remote Flutter Widgets (RFW) that downloads stateful UI blueprints and preserves state, and experiments with flutter_genui generative UI (Gemini) to produce an interactive travel itinerary and even book a hotel; warns about hallucinations and hard debugging.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00OTA updates in Flutter
- 2:12Limbo state and lightweight OTA
- 8:11Code push solutions
- 12:26Web views for static content
- 15:13Server-driven UI with Remote Flutter Widgets
- 20:09Generative UI and AI-powered updates
- 33:56Summary and future of OTA
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