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.

Enjoy the show 👨‍🍳

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

• 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