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, Marcos will walk us through some of the challenges they’re facing daily and how they go from Github to the Play Store and beyond.
Show Notes
00.00 Intro00.46 Episode Start01.20 Marcos’ Introduction02.17 What is Duck Duck Go?03.50 What is Duck Duck Go Privacy Browser?05.46 The history of the name06.57 Convince us to use Duck Duck Go rather than other search engine09.58 Bangs12.03 How is Duck Duck Go Android Browser different?14.04 How the app works internally?15.58 WebViews WebViews WebViews20.29 Do you share code with iOS?25.14 How would you rewrite the app differently?28.31 How your release process looks like?34.12 Employee vs External Contributors37.20 Major features coming from the community38.50 How to contribute to Duck Duck Go?40.10 Future Projects43.21 Further reading45.06 Where to find Marcos online?Resources
duckduckgo/Android on Github Duck Duck Go Search Engine Duck Duck Go Privacy Browser Front Page Download on Play Store Download on FDroid Download APK on Github This is not about coding anymore - Droidcon London 2021 @Orbycius on Twitter @marcosholgado on Github Marcos’ Personal WebsiteShow links
Podcast Website The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts @thebakerydev on Twitter @cortinico on Twitter