diff --git a/examples/material_gallery/android/AndroidManifest.xml b/examples/material_gallery/android/AndroidManifest.xml
index 2fbd96d14ea..951c123523c 100644
--- a/examples/material_gallery/android/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/examples/material_gallery/android/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -15,9 +15,5 @@
                 <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
             </intent-filter>
         </activity>
-        <service
-            android:name="org.domokit.sky.shell.UpdateService"
-            android:exported="false"
-            android:process=":remote"/>
     </application>
  </manifest>
diff --git a/packages/updater/.gitignore b/packages/updater/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index b9a62f75231..00000000000
--- a/packages/updater/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-.idea
-.pub/
-pubspec.lock
diff --git a/packages/updater/lib/main.dart b/packages/updater/lib/main.dart
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f748f6e446..00000000000
--- a/packages/updater/lib/main.dart
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,126 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
-// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
-// found in the LICENSE file.
-
-import 'dart:async';
-import 'dart:io';
-
-import 'package:mojo/core.dart';
-import 'package:flutter/http.dart' as http;
-import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
-import 'package:flx/bundle.dart';
-import 'package:sky_services/updater/update_service.mojom.dart';
-import 'package:path/path.dart' as path;
-import 'package:yaml/yaml.dart' as yaml;
-
-import 'pipe_to_file.dart';
-import 'version.dart';
-
-const String kManifestFile = 'flutter.yaml';
-const String kBundleFile = 'app.flx';
-
-UpdateServiceProxy _initUpdateService() {
-  UpdateServiceProxy updateService = new UpdateServiceProxy.unbound();
-  shell.connectToService(null, updateService);
-  return updateService;
-}
-
-final UpdateServiceProxy _updateService = _initUpdateService();
-
-String cachedDataDir = null;
-Future<String> getDataDir() async {
-  if (cachedDataDir == null)
-    cachedDataDir = await getAppDataDir();
-  return cachedDataDir;
-}
-
-class UpdateFailure extends Error {
-  UpdateFailure(this._message);
-  String _message;
-  String toString() => _message;
-}
-
-class UpdateTask {
-  UpdateTask();
-
-  Future run() async {
-    try {
-      await _runImpl();
-    } on UpdateFailure catch (e) {
-      print('Update failed: $e');
-    } catch (e, stackTrace) {
-      print('Update failed: $e');
-      print('Stack: $stackTrace');
-    } finally {
-      _updateService.ptr.notifyUpdateCheckComplete();
-    }
-  }
-
-  Future _runImpl() async {
-    _dataDir = await getDataDir();
-
-    await _readLocalManifest();
-    yaml.YamlMap remoteManifest = await _fetchManifest();
-    if (!_shouldUpdate(remoteManifest)) {
-      print('Update skipped. No new version.');
-      return;
-    }
-    await _fetchBundle();
-    await _validateBundle();
-    await _replaceBundle();
-    print('Update success.');
-  }
-
-  Map _currentManifest;
-  String _dataDir;
-  String _tempPath;
-
-  Future _readLocalManifest() async {
-    String bundlePath = path.join(_dataDir, kBundleFile);
-    Bundle bundle = await Bundle.readHeader(bundlePath);
-    _currentManifest = bundle.manifest;
-  }
-
-  Future<yaml.YamlMap> _fetchManifest() async {
-    String manifestUrl = _currentManifest['update-url'] + '/' + kManifestFile;
-    String manifestData = (await http.get(manifestUrl)).body;
-    return yaml.loadYaml(manifestData, sourceUrl: manifestUrl);
-  }
-
-  bool _shouldUpdate(yaml.YamlMap remoteManifest) {
-    Version currentVersion = new Version(_currentManifest['version']);
-    Version remoteVersion = new Version(remoteManifest['version']);
-    return (currentVersion < remoteVersion);
-  }
-
-  Future _fetchBundle() async {
-    // TODO(mpcomplete): Use the cache dir. We need an equivalent of mkstemp().
-    _tempPath = path.join(_dataDir, 'tmp.skyx');
-    String bundleUrl = _currentManifest['update-url'] + '/' + kBundleFile;
-    UrlResponse response = await fetchUrl(bundleUrl);
-    int result = await PipeToFile.copyToFile(response.body, _tempPath);
-    if (result != MojoResult.kOk)
-      throw new UpdateFailure('Failure fetching new package: ${response.statusLine}');
-  }
-
-  Future _validateBundle() async {
-    Bundle bundle = await Bundle.readHeader(_tempPath);
-
-    if (bundle == null)
-      throw new UpdateFailure('Remote package not a valid FLX file.');
-    if (bundle.manifest['key'] != _currentManifest['key'])
-      throw new UpdateFailure('Remote package key does not match.');
-    if (!await bundle.verifyContent())
-      throw new UpdateFailure('Invalid package signature or hash. This package has been tampered with.');
-  }
-
-  Future _replaceBundle() async {
-    String bundlePath = path.join(_dataDir, kBundleFile);
-    await new File(_tempPath).rename(bundlePath);
-  }
-}
-
-void main() {
-  UpdateTask task = new UpdateTask();
-  task.run();
-}
diff --git a/packages/updater/lib/pipe_to_file.dart b/packages/updater/lib/pipe_to_file.dart
deleted file mode 100644
index d11663908b5..00000000000
--- a/packages/updater/lib/pipe_to_file.dart
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
-// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
-// found in the LICENSE file.
-
-import 'dart:async';
-import 'dart:io';
-import 'dart:typed_data';
-
-import 'package:mojo/core.dart';
-
-// Helper class to drain the contents of a mojo data pipe to a file.
-class PipeToFile {
-  MojoDataPipeConsumer _consumer;
-  MojoEventSubscription _events;
-  IOSink _outputStream;
-
-  PipeToFile(this._consumer, String outputPath) {
-    _events = new MojoEventSubscription(_consumer.handle);
-    _outputStream = new File(outputPath).openWrite();
-  }
-
-  Future<int> _doRead() async {
-    ByteData thisRead = _consumer.beginRead();
-    if (thisRead == null) {
-      throw 'Data pipe beginRead failed: ${_consumer.status}';
-    }
-    // TODO(mpcomplete): Should I worry about the _eventStream listen callback
-    // being invoked again before this completes?
-    await _outputStream.add(thisRead.buffer.asUint8List());
-    return _consumer.endRead(thisRead.lengthInBytes);
-  }
-
-  Future<int> drain() {
-    Completer<int> completer = new Completer();
-    _events.subscribe((int signal) {
-      (() async {
-        if (MojoHandleSignals.isReadable(signal)) {
-          int result = await _doRead();
-          if (result != MojoResult.kOk) {
-            _events.close();
-            _events = null;
-            _outputStream.close();
-            completer.complete(result);
-          } else {
-            _events.enableReadEvents();
-          }
-        } else if (MojoHandleSignals.isPeerClosed(signal)) {
-          _events.close();
-          _events = null;
-          _outputStream.close();
-          completer.complete(MojoResult.kOk);
-        } else {
-          throw 'Unexpected handle event: ${MojoHandleSignals.string(signal)}';
-        }
-      })();
-    });
-    return completer.future;
-  }
-
-  static Future<int> copyToFile(MojoDataPipeConsumer consumer, String outputPath) {
-    PipeToFile drainer = new PipeToFile(consumer, outputPath);
-    return drainer.drain();
-  }
-}
diff --git a/packages/updater/lib/version.dart b/packages/updater/lib/version.dart
deleted file mode 100644
index 15c1ab7d5c2..00000000000
--- a/packages/updater/lib/version.dart
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
-// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
-// found in the LICENSE file.
-
-import 'dart:math';
-
-// This class represents a dot-separated version string. Used for comparing
-// versions.
-// Usage: assert(new Version('1.1.0') < new Version('1.2.1'));
-class Version {
-  Version(String versionStr) :
-    _parts = versionStr.split('.').map((String val) => int.parse(val)).toList();
-
-  List<int> _parts;
-
-  bool operator<(Version other) => _compare(other) < 0;
-  bool operator==(dynamic other) => other is Version && _compare(other) == 0;
-  bool operator>(Version other) => _compare(other) > 0;
-
-  int _compare(Version other) {
-    int length = min(_parts.length, other._parts.length);
-    for (int i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
-      if (_parts[i] < other._parts[i])
-        return -1;
-      if (_parts[i] > other._parts[i])
-        return 1;
-    }
-    return _parts.length - other._parts.length;  // results in 1.0 < 1.0.0
-  }
-
-  int get hashCode => _parts.fold(373, (int acc, int part) => 37*acc + part);
-}
diff --git a/packages/updater/pubspec.yaml b/packages/updater/pubspec.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 192dd01afb5..00000000000
--- a/packages/updater/pubspec.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-name: updater
-author: Flutter Authors <flutter-dev@googlegroups.com>
-description: An autoupdater for Flutter
-homepage: http://flutter.io
-dependencies:
-  path: ^1.3.0
-  yaml: ^2.1.3
-
-  # TODO(abarth): Updater should not depend on flutter
-  flutter:
-    path: ../flutter
-  flx:
-    path: ../flx
-
-environment:
-  sdk: '>=1.12.0 <2.0.0'