Building with AI and curiosity with Ivan Morgillo

Do Android developers still need Android Studio, or just any IDE? With AI agents writing and navigating more of our code, the IDE’s role is changing. However some tools such as debuggers & profilers are hard to replace. In this Fresh from the Oven episode, Nicola, Marco, and Paolo talk...

What changes when AI can take care of the tedious parts of building software, and help you try ideas that once felt out of reach? Today we’re joined by Ivan Morgillo, an Android engineer, indie developer, and longtime tinkerer. Ivan explains why he treats AI as an assistant for the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...