We’re back in the Kotlin world with Marco Gomiero and his library RSS-Parser for, you guessed it, parsing RSS feeds.
Marco will walk us through how this library helped him to get started in the OSS world and helped him land his first job!
Show Notes
00.00 Intro00.45 Episode Start01.26 Marco’s Introduction03.18 What is RSS-Parser?04.44 How RSS-Parser is different from a XML parser?07.03 Whick Kotlin features have you used?09.21 Using coroutines from Java10.54 JVM vs Android libraries12.20 RSS-Parsing in the Multiplatform world14.05 Any design decision you regret?17.22 What’s the history of this library?23.05 How Marco got started with OSS?24.39 Publishing to Maven Central30.32 Meaningful external contributions33.13 Sponsorships33.53 What’s next for this library?35.09 Further reading36.36 Where people can find you online?Resources
prof18/RSS-Parser on GithubMentioned Resources: A journey from Async Task to Kotlin Coroutines RSS Parser 2.0: bye bye Async Task, welcome Coroutines vanniktech/gradle-maven-publish-plugin on Github @marcoGomier on Twitter @prof18 on Github @marcogom on Mastodon Marco’s 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