The Developers' Bakery

In this episode we are going to meet Xavier Gouchet and the Datadog Android SDK 🐶. Datadog helps you monitor and track problems with your mobile applications, such as crashes and ANR. The Android SDK offers a large variety of plugins that helps you track the health of your app...

It’s been since episode #07 that we haven’t talked about Flutter 💙, so today we have Miguel Beltran on stage to talk about one of the most important library for it: Plus Plugins. Miguel is one of the maintainer of this popular collection of plugins. Plus plugins offer multiplatform capability...

In this episode we’re back on the topic of Cloud IDEs with Geoffrey Huntley to talk us about Gitpod 🚀. First, I had the pleasure to ask Geoff some insights on his van life ⛺️. Geoff is living remote work at its finest, working from his van in Australia and...

You don’t get to build a browser every day right? Today we have Sebastian Kaspari on stage to talk us about Firefox for Android 🦊. Together we will walk through what it takes to write a mobile browser, and we will discover some of the open-source projects in the Mozilla...

So we made it to Episode 20! 🎂. If you’ve been enjoying this podcast so far, please consider making a small donation to my London Marathon 2021 fundaraising. You’ll be supporting Mencap, the voice of Learning Disabilities 🙏 Thank you so much. We’re celebrating this milestone with a special episode....

Today we venture into the realm of Functional Programming with Arrow 🏹 and Simon Vergauwen. Arrow is the functional companion library for Kotlin. It makes writing FP code easier thanks to classes and extensions to the Kotlin standard library. In this episode we talk about the story of this library...

Are you ready to relocate your IDE to the cloud ☁️? In this episode we welcome on stage Joe Previte to talk about code-server, the solution to run VS Code in your browser. Joe is also working for coder.com, an enterprise service that offers code-server deployment ready to use. Today...

Today we touch a bit on the Python 🐍 world as I have the honor to have on-stage Patrick Arminio, author and maintainer of Strawberry 🍓. Strawberry is a GraphQL library for Python 3. It comes with a lot of nice features built on top of language feature such as...

Today I have the honor to host on-stage Kosh Sergani, author and maintainer of FastHub. If you don’t know FastHub yet, it’s one of the most popular Github client for Android. It’s obviously fully open-sourced and Kosh has been developing it from day 1. Today he’s sharing with us the...

☢️☢️☢️ When Gradle or the IDE let you down, just --nuke all them caches ☢️☢️☢️ Today’s project is basically a script: deep-clean. This script is the last resort to unblock yourself when your Android/JVM/Gradle builds are damn broken. deep-clean will take care of cleaning up your build caches. If you’re...

“When all you have is an anvil, every problem looks like a hammer.” - Abraham Maslow So it starts the Anvil 🔨 README. Anvil is a plugin to make your dependency injection with Dagger 2 easier. We have the pleasure to host Ralf Wondratschek, Mobile Engineer @ Square. He’s going...

Today we have on stage Martin Bonnin, Android Engineer at Apollo GraphQL 🚀. Martin has the amazing opportunity to work full time for an open-source project: Apollo Android, probably the most popular GraphQL client for Android. In this episode Martin will tell us his experience with GraphQL, how he got...

Have you ever ventured inside the dependency hell 😈? Louis CAD has for sure. Today we’re talking about refreshVersions, a Gradle plugin to help you keep your third-party dependencies up to date. The killer feature of refreshVersions is the possibility to see all the available versions as comments in your...

It’s time to talk about meta-programming, annotation processors and compiler plugins 🧙‍♂️. Today we have Zac Sweers on stage, Mobile Engineer @ Slack and maintainer of Moshi, a popular Json library. Zac is the author of MoshiX, a set of extensions for Moshi. Between those, one that caught my attention...

🎂 We’re happy to celebrate our 10th episode! 🎂 And today we have on stage, Saket Narayan, Android Engineer at Square. Saket is an master of Android UI and Custom Views and today is on stage to talk to us about Press. Press is a beautiful App for taking notes...

This episode is going to be all about testing and code coverage 🧪 as we have Evgeny Mandrikov on stage! He’s going to tell use the story behind JaCoCo, aka Java Code Coverage, one the most popular code coverage library for Java, Kotlin and the JVM. If you’re curious to...

You don’t need a tooling team That’s Tuist motto, and if you’re an iOS Developer 🍎 you really don’t want to miss it. Today we have Pedro Piñera Buendía on stage. He’s the author and maintainer of Tuist, a tool to help you maintain and generate your XCode Projects. Pedro...

Do you know Flutter 💙 ? I bet you do, if you’re into mobile development. Today, we have Pawan Kumar on stage, he’s a Flutter & Dart GDE and he is on stage to advocate for cross-platform development. Pawan is the author of VelocityX, a framework that will make your...

In this episode, we talk about Dependency Injection 🗡. We have Arnaud Giuliani on stage, Kotlin GDE and author of Koin, a popular dependency injection framework for Kotlin. Koin works well for Android projects, but it can be used also in backend projects and the Multiplatform support is just behind...

In this episode, we shift a bit from Mobile & Kotlin to talk about shells, prompts and Rust! 🦀 Today we have Matan Kushner with us on stage to talk about Starship 🚀. From their website: The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! Still confused? A picture...

Today, I’m more than excited to welcome on stage Sebastian Aigner, Developer Advocate at JetBrains. Sebastian is with us to talk about Jetpack Compose Desktop, a new declarative UI framework for Desktop applications written in Kotlin. Jetpack Compose Desktop is the porting of Jetpack Compose, the declarative UI framework for...

Let’s kickoff 2021 with a great open-source tool: danger ⚠️! Danger’s motto is Stop saying “You forgot to…” in code review and it definitely delivers greatly on promises. With Danger, you can automatize recurrent and tedious tasks that affect your pull-requests. Today, we have Franco Meloni on stage, one of...

In this episode, we welcome on stage Colin White to introduce us Coil, COroutines Image Loader. Coil is an Android image loading library that recently hit the 1.0 milestone, completely written in Kotlin and with first class support for Kotlin Coroutines. In this episode, Colin tells us challenges, fun facts...

In this episode, we talk about Gradle Doctor with its author Nelson Osacky. Gradle doctor helps you fix performance problems and errors in your Gradle build. The tool works as a Gradle plugin - emitting prescriptions for all the problems found. Nelson tells us how he came up with the...

Show Notes Hi everyone and welcome to the Developers Bakery 👋 A podcast about open-source projects, tools and libraries for software developers. If you ever developed any kind of software, you probably know that a significant amount of code is not the one you wrote but the one others wrote....