Charty with Himanshu Singh

The Developers' Bakery

It’s time to spotlight another amazing Android library in this episode of The Developers’ Bakery! Today, I’m joined by Himanshu Singh, author and maintainer of Charty.

Charty is a chart library entirely written for Jetpack Compose. In this episode, Himanshu will walk us through the complexities of building custom UI libraries and his passion for open-source.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

Show Notes

• 00.00 Intro
• 00.46 Episode Start
• 01.19 Himanshu’s Introduction
• 02.19 What is Charty?
• 03.43 What is Jetpack Compose
• 05.43 The story of Charty
• 08.54 MPAndroidChart vs Charty
• 10.27 Writing libraries for Compose
• 12.28 The challenges of building a chart library
• 14.53 Learning to say no
• 17.34 The most requested feature
• 18.48 Making Charty multiplatform
• 19.53 Charty 2.0.0?
• 22.21 How to contribute to Charty?
• 26.22 How open-source accelerated your career
• 29.59 Which other libraries are you maintaining?
• 31.46 Further reading
• 33.12 Where people can find you online?

Resources

• hi-manshu/Charty on GitHub
• Charty Documentation
• hi-manshu/Kalendar on GitHub
• @hi-manshu on GitHub
• @hi_man_shoe on Twitter

Show links

• Podcast Website
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• @thebakerydev on Twitter
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