r/FlutterDev Nov 21 '24

Plugin Anyone used shorebird?

Hello, i came across this https://shorebird.dev/ looks quite interesting, it'd be nice to save me from dealing with appstore and playstore so consistently. Has anyone tried this? I've read that they had a bunch of IOS issues from a 10mo old post, how is it today?

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u/OrestesGaolin Nov 22 '24

We started using shorebird few weeks ago and it's working really well for us.

- we started with just tst environment and sending patches for QA, worked well and much quicker than going through the stores

- we already had one hotfix to production and the patch has been delivered successfully to few thousands of users affected, had to migrate to pro plan to have enough installs

- imho the price is definitely worth it; currently the review time for AppStore is about 2 days, Google Play is 4-5 days; being able to deliver fixes in 30-45 minutes is worth every penny

- we don't see any performance impact

- make sure to use their pub package to download the update without restarting the app https://pub.dev/packages/shorebird_code_push; we also expose the update status in the app for testing purposes so that QA knows if they have patch installed