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