The Developers' Bakery

It’s time to expand our horizons in the text expander realm with Espanso! Today we have Federico Terzi on stage to present his project, a cross-platform text expander entirely written in Rust 🦀. If you’re into automating every workflow, you probably know how crucial a text expander can be in...

It’s time to talk about Fake vs Mock once for all! Today, we do have Mattia Tommasone on stage to talk about MockK a popular mocking framework for Kotlin. MockK allows you to write elegant tests thanks to its idiomatic DSL. Mattia had the opportunity to take over the maintainance...

It’s time to talk again about beautiful UI animations, but this time for iOS 🍎! It’s my pleasure to have Amos Gyamfi on stage to talk about MotionScape. Amos has a long history of building animations for iOS, and today he’s with us to talk about the challenges of building...

Today we talk about tools to build beautiful Web UIs! 💫 How often have you written custom components that are hard to test or visualize as they’re complex and have multiple states? Components such as graphs, lists, checkboxes, list items, can be really hard to develop in isolation. Here Storybook...

Elegant Android UI libraries are the mastery of today’s guest! Please welcome Jaewoong Eum on stage to talk about Balloon 🎈. Balloon is a library to display tooltips on Android apps. Display tooltips might sound easy, but it turns out that there is much complexity under the hood. Jaewoong will...

It’s not just open source that we showcase on the Developers’ Bakery. Today we’ll talk about open data. We’re glad to have on stage Said Turksever to talk about his experience with OpenStreetMap. If you’ve ever built a product that displays a map, you know what we’re talking about. OpenStreetMap...

Today we venture in the mobile cross-platform world with Kevin Galligan from TouchLab. Kevin has been using and advocating Kotlin Multiplatform since the early days! Together with TouchLab they’ve released tools and libraries that are crucial to the development of the Kotlin Multiplatform ecosystem. Today, Kevin in on-stage to talk...

As teased in episode 40, today we’re going to have on stage Kscript and Marcin Kuszczak! Kscript brings the power of Kotlin to the scripting world. It makes writing scripts a pleasure thanks to the elegant Kotlin APIs, and allows you to directly use tons of libraries and dependencies from...

Today we have the pleasure to host two amazing guests on stage: Gabriel Ittner and Hannes Dorfmann. Gabriel and Hannes have been working on FlowRedux, an MVI architecture library for Android and beyond. FlowRedux offers a beautiful DSL to represent the state machine of your application and is built on...

As with every 10 episodes, we’re back with a special episode! 🎁 Today we’re talking about an open-source project which is a bit atypical: thebakery.dev. Exactly, we’re going to walk through the website and the infrastructure that is powering The Developers’ Bakery. Did you know that this podcast is fully...

The topic of today’s episode is all about Static Website Generators. I’m really excited to have on stage Sébastien Lorber to talk about Docusaurus 🦕. There is nothing better than great software, than great software with great documentation! That’s why having a great documentation website is crucial for the success...

If you ever shipped an Android App to production, you probably know about ProGuard, a tool to optimize, shrink and obfuscate your Java/Kotlin code. Today we have James Hamilton on stage, to tell us about how it works internally and why you should never forget to enable it in your...

Who doesn’t like animations? Thanks to Lottie, we can experience beautiful smooth animations on our mobile devices! Today we have on stage Gabriel Peal, maintainer of Lottie Android, to tell us about this project. We will start from how this project started, as a simple proof of concept inside AirBnB...

It’s time to talk about search engines with Marcos Holgado and Duck Duck Go. Marcos is one of the developers of the Duck Duck Go Privacy Browser, a browser for Android designed with privacy first. As you can imagine, developing a web browser is no easy task. In this episode,...

I’m really excited to have on stage Jonathan Leitschuh and Yahor Berdnikau, maintainers of ktlint-gradle. ktlint-gradle is a Gradle Plugin that allows you to lint and reformat your Kotlin code during a Gradle build. We’re going to touch and what are the challenges of building such a tool and a...

Have you ever debugged an application using gdb? If yes, you probably know how unfriendly the user interface of gdb is. That’s why Andrea Cardaci developed gdb-dashboard, a graphical interface for gdb. Today, we’ll walk through how this project started and we’ll talk about some of the challenges of developing...

We’re back at talking about Monitoring, Profiling and Instrumentation with folks from the Sentry SDK. I’m excited to have on stage Manoel Aranda Neto and Roman Zavarnitsyn to talk as a bit about their Android SDK. The Sentry Android SDK goes beyond just monitoring. It’s able to auto-instrument your code,...

It’s time to talk about Docker 🐳 and how it can help you improve your integration tests, with Sergei Egorov and Testcontainers. Testcontainers make easy to start instances of DBs, web browsers, or any other tool that can be containerized to help you write integration tests. This will allow you...

We’re back to talk about Gradle 🐘 with Tony Robalik and the Dependency Analysis Android Gradle Plugin (DAAGP). Tony wrote this plugin to help you with unused and misused dependencies and save yourself from some depenceny hell. We will learn about the story of this plugin and some of the...

Today, we celebrate episode #30 of the Developers’ Bakery 🥐🎉 We do so with a special episode and three special guests: Brais Gabin, Chao Zhang and Markus Schwarz. They are, together with Nicola, some of the maintainers of Detekt, the Kotlin static analyzer. In this episode we will walk you...

Today we have the pleasure to host another popular Dependency Injection framework at the Developers’ Bakery. Please welcome Kodein-DI and Salomon Brys on stage! Kodein is an acronym for KOtlin DEpendency INjection, a framework to help you handle your dependencies in your Kotlin code (on all the platforms!). But Kodein...

Building a chat client is hard. Sending messages, uploading attachments, and handling reactions are all tedious and quite complicate tasks that are common to a wide variety of apps. Those are the foundation of the Android Stream SDK. With Stream you can build a customized chat experience for your mobile...

In this episode of The Developers’ Bakery we touch on Next.js and a middleware to overcome one of its missing capability with Michele Riva and Krabs 🦀 Krabs is a Express.js/Fastify middleware that will help you deploying multi-tenancy application on Next.js. We’re going to walk through what this tool does...

This time, we fly up to Mars with Vincenzo Palazzo and the Material UI Swing. Vincenzo is the maintainer of this library, a custom theme for Swing which is bringing a material look-n-feel to the Swing UI toolkit. While this might sound boring at first, Material UI Swing is currently...

Let’s start this new year venturing inside the realm of mobile databases, with Christian Melchior and the Realm Kotlin SDK. Realm is an on-device database, that helps you handle your app state with a lot of convenient built-in features such as lazy loading, encryption, and cloud synchronization. In this episode,...