Today we venture in the world of AI with Jason Pearson and the Android MCP (Model Context Protocol) SDK, a new library that allows Android developers to build apps that can communicate with AI models more effectively.

While this library is still in its early days, this solution has a lot of potential to revolutionize how we interact and debug our Android apps. Jason is going to share insights from his with MCP and what it enables for Android developers: from layout inspections, to network debugging and potentially automating and simplifying UI testing for mobile apps!

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Since it’s KotlinConf week we do have a special new episode for you folks! 🎁

Today we have on stage Sebastian Sellmair, software engineer at JetBrains, and he’s here to talk about Compose Hot Reload.

With Compose Hot Reload, you can make changes to your Jetpack Compose code and see the results instantly in your app without having to restart it! This means you can iterate faster and get immediate feedback on your changes, which is arguably a huge game-changer!

In this episode, Sebastian will walk us through the story of this project, how it works internally, and why you need a custom JVM to make it work. He’ll also share some insights on how to test Hot Reload and what the future holds for this project.

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We’re back with a fresh new episode! 🍞🎉

Today, we sit down with Gilad Shoham, Head of Engineering at Bit.dev

In this episode, Gilad will walk us through the fundamentals of Bit, how it enables composable architectures, and how development teams are using it as part of their workflow. We will touch on common challanges that developers are facing nowadays such as scaling teams, enabling them to be independent and move fast, while keeping the integration of the entire platform seamless.

We will also touch on the future of AI-assisted development and how Bit.dev fits in this bigger picture.

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We’re back with a fresh new episode at The Developer’s Bakery! 🎉

In this episode, we chat with Aayush Gupta, the maintainer of Aurora Store, a popular alternative to the Google Play Store.

Aayush will share what makes Aurora Store unique, including its features, security measures, and how it compares to other similar stores like FDroid.

We’ll deep dive into some of the technical aspects of Aurora Store, discussing topics such as anonymous login, malware protection, and much more.

As a bonus, Aayush is also a moderator at XDA Developers, one of the biggest Android community out there, and will share his journey getting into it.

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Time for a new episode of The Developers’ Bakery! 🎉

In this episode, we dive into the world of http4k with David Denton, exploring how you can treat your server as a function! Thanks to Kotlin expressivity, http4k allows you to develop server applications that are easy to test and maintain.

David created and maintains the http4k together with Ivan Sanchez, and will share his story in creating this framework, which they claim it stands out as the most testable web toolkit. We will also discuss their journey from an open-source project to becoming a full-fledged company.

Tune in to learn everything http4k!

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In this episode of The Developers’ Bakery, we explore Astro, the modern web framework, with Elian Van Cutsem, one of its maintainers. Elian will walk us through Astro’s content-first approach, how it compares to other web frameworks, and its support for server-side/hybrid rendering.

We also dive into Astro’s governance model and the challenges of maintaining an open-source project at this scale. Elian will also share his insights on the latest Astro 5 release and what’s next for the project.

Finally, we chat about FOSDEM! We’ll share some of our personal anecdotes from the conference which just happened in Brussels, so you don’t want to miss this episode!

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Let’s kickoff 2025 with a fresh new episode of The Developers’ Bakery! 🎉

Today, we talk about KotlinPoet with Egor Andreevich.

Egor has been involved with KotlinPoet for multiple years and today will share with us how KotlinPoet works,

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We’re back with another episode about developer tools! Today, we’re diving into Daytona 🚀, a self-hosted and secure open source development environment manager.

I’m thrilled to have on stage Ivan Burazin, CEO and co-founder of Daytona, to tell us more about this project.

Do you recall how much time it takes you to have your development environment ready? Think about how many hours you spend setting up your machine, installing dependencies, and configuring your IDE. Daytona aims to solve exactly this problem by providing a development environment that can get you up to speed in seconds!

In addition, Ivan will walk us through the story of Daytona: how it started and what’s next for this tool.

Ivan also has a lot of experience in conference organization. In this episode, we’ll touch on what he learned from creating tech conferences and how that skills helped him build Daytona today.

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Today we’re going to talk about Excalidraw 🎨, a web tool to sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn style.

I’m glad to have on stage Aakansha Doshi, one of the maintainer of Excalidraw, to tell us more about this project.

We’ll also talk about the community around Excalidraw, and Aakansha will share some tips on how to start contributing to your first open-source project.

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It’s time for another special episode, 90!

Together with our own Nicola, we’re diving into the world of Chucker, an open-source library that helps you debug network requests in Android.

With Chucker you can simply inspect the HTTP and GraphQL requests and responses, visualize the body such as JSON or images, and even export them to share with your team.

Nicola will tell us the story of how this library was born, how it evolved over time, and how you can use it in your projects.

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