The Developers' Bakery

Android is introducing developer verification for apps installed on certified devices, including apps distributed outside Google Play. What does that mean for sideloading, open source projects, and the way Android developers share their work?

In this Fresh from the Oven episode, Nicola, Marco, and Paolo discuss the ADV rollout and its goals of making it harder to forge malicious apps. They walk through app registration, identity checks, and the advanced flow users can enable to install unverified apps after a (sadly long) 24-hour wait.

Join us in this episode, as we talk through Play Console stories, account suspensions, the 20-developers requirements, and what it means for Android’s reputation as an open platform.

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What does it take to build a developer conference that still feels like it belongs to its community?

Today we record in person in Berlin, with Greg Fawson, CEO of droidcon Global. Greg is going to share what happens behind the scenes of bit tech conferences: how droidcon grew from a 200-person gathering in 2009 into a global conference series, and why balancing attendees, speakers, sponsors, venues, and logistics is a constant juggling act.

We revisit the post-COVID decline of local meetups, a New York venue whose jet-fuel-powered air conditioning turned into a wind tunnel 🍃, and the ways Android’s evolution changed conference agendas. Greg also describes how AI is affecting talk submissions, session selection, company travel budgets, and the value of meeting other developers in person.

Finally, we look ahead to next.app DevCon, which brings Android, Flutter, iOS, React Native, mobile security, XR, mobile games, and agentic coding together while preserving dedicated spaces for each community.

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When coding agents can produce changes faster than you can inspect them, what does a useful code review look like?

In this Fresh from the Oven episode, Marco walks us through his agentic development setup. He explains how he reviews plans and architecture before implementation, how he uses fresh contexts and different models to review generated code, and why the signals he looks for are changing as code becomes a commodity.

The core of the conversation is Difftray, Marco’s local-first review desk for Git changes. Marco built it after repeatedly losing track of files that an agent had changed after his first pass.

Difftray remembers which files were reviewed, flags them when their diffs drift, and turns inline review comments into a prompt that can be sent back to the agent.

We also explore Marco’s remote workflow: HTML plans in Obsidian, Codex and Claude Code running on his Mac Studio, Difftray Companion on his phone, Tailscale for private remote access, and plenty of Git worktrees for parallel agents.

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How much of your coding agent can you make your own? Today we’re recording in person during the GDE Summit, with Iury Souza, a mobile developer and platform engineer who loves tinkering with his dev tools.

Iury takes us through his agentic development setup with OpenCode and Pi, from choosing models for planning and implementation to teaching an agent to build its own extensions. We explore what a harness actually does, how skills and AGENTS.md shape the context a model sees, and why sharing your perfect setup can be just as tricky as sharing your dotfiles.

We also talk about the future of terminal interfaces, the reality of running local models on a laptop, and how to keep up when agents produce more work than you can comfortably review. Iury shares his experiments with annotated plans and his open-source Visual Artifact Renderer, which turns agent output into visual explanations, code reviews, and dashboards.

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One hundred episodes. 🎉

When this podcast started back in 2020, as one of those pandemic side projects, I would have never thought we would reach this milestone. Yet here we are, five years later.

To celebrate, we’re turning the format upside down: today I’m the one under the spotlight, and I’m not alone in the bakery. Marco Gomiero, who you might remember from episode #52, and Paolo Rotolo are on stage with me, recorded in person here in Berlin, and they get to ask the questions for once.

We talk about how this show came to be, the six months I spent building the infrastructure before recording a single word, why the “one open source project per episode” rule slowly turned into a cage, the episodes I regret, what it’s like to travel the world with a microphone that looks like a bomb on an X-ray, and why I came very close to stopping at 99.

And then we look ahead. From today Marco and Paolo are officially co-hosts of this show, and the bakery gets two kinds of episodes: Deep Dives with a guest, and Fresh from the Oven, where the three of us pick a topic and dig into it. We’re also opening a new segment, the Recipe of the Week, where each of us shares a small tool or trick we picked up recently.

Thank you to everyone who listened, shared, and came on stage over these 100 episodes. Here’s to the next batch 🍞

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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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