The Developers' Bakery

Charty with Himanshu Singh

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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.

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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
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      • The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
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