Show notes
In this episode, we welcome on stage Colin White to introduce us Coil, COroutines Image Loader. Coil is an Android image loading library that recently hit the 1.0 milestone, completely written in Kotlin and with first class support for Kotlin Coroutines. In this episode, Colin tells us challenges, fun facts and future projects for this library.Enjoy the show 👨🍳Show Notes 00:20 Intro 01:06 Episode Start 02:00 Colin’s Introduction 02:45 What is Coil? 04:12 How you came up with Coil? 08:05 Coil <3 Kotlin 09:36 The challenges of image loading 13:08 What’s the faster library? 16:17 Screenshot Testing 17:48 We all love animated GIFs 19:53 Coil & Jetpack Compose 21:30 What’s the roadmap for Coil? 23:31 Debug Tools 25:32 Prefetching and Animating 28:58 Challenges in the Open Source ecosystems 30:42 How to contribute? 32:24 The future of Coil 34:09 Learning Coil 35:17 Where to find Colin online?Resources coil-kt/coil on Github Coil Documentation Benchmarking Image Loading Libraries on Android @colinwhi on TwitterShow 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
