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52. Mike Rydstrom

2025/2/24

It's All Widgets! Flutter Podcast

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Mike Rydstrom: 我拥有丰富的编程经验，从早期的Commodore 64到大型国际公司的企业系统开发，再到如今专注于Flutter的Material Design主题定制。我开发了FlexColorScheme、FlexSeedScheme和FlexColorPicker等多个Flutter包，旨在简化Flutter应用的主题定制和颜色选择过程。FlexColorScheme提供了一个可视化的主题配置工具Themes Playground，方便开发者快速创建和调整应用主题。FlexSeedScheme则提供更精细的Material 3颜色方案生成控制，而FlexColorPicker则是一个功能强大的颜色选择器。在状态管理方面，我推荐轻量级的方案，如ValueNotifier、ChangeNotifier和ListenableBuilder，对于复杂场景，可以使用Signals。最后，我目前在HypeHype公司工作，这是一个基于Flutter的移动优先游戏平台，拥有35万行Flutter代码。 Philip Korn: 作为主持人，我引导Mike Rydstrom分享了他的职业经历、技术选择和开发经验，并对他的开源项目和Flutter社区贡献表示赞赏。

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Mike Rydstrom, also known as MaterialMike, shares his extensive programming background, starting from the VIC-20 and Commodore 64 era through various languages and systems like Pascal, C, Visual Basic, and COBOL. His academic journey involved a master's degree in process engineering and computer science, leading to roles in management within multinational corporations.

Early programming experience with VIC-20, Commodore 64, and various languages.
Master's degree in process engineering and computer science.
Management roles in multinational corporations, including IT infrastructure and business systems development.

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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.