Shipping Faster with Shorebird: Production-Ready OTA Updates for Flutter Apps

Keeping mobile apps fresh in production is no small feat, especially when you need to iterate fast and the app stores review queues, approval delays, and multi-day waits can't keep up. We've all been there. In this session, I’ll walk you through how my team at BasiGo tackled this challenge by integrating Shorebird, an open-source tool that brings over-the-air (OTA) updates to Flutter apps. With Shorebird, we’re able to push critical fixes and small improvements directly to users without waiting on app store approvals or breaking our CI/CD flow. We’ll cover: 1). What Shorebird is and how it works under the hood 2). How to integrate it into a production Flutter app with minimal friction. 3). How we use it alongside Codemagic for tagging, versioning, and automated rollouts. 4). Lessons learned from deploying OTA updates in a live environment. 5). Why OTA isn’t just a dev-time win, but a product win too. Whether you're a solo dev, scaling a startup, or just tired of staring at Play Console submission statuses, this session will help you ship smarter, faster, and with more confidence.