Philip Schiffer is a Senior Software Developer and System Administrator based in Berlin with 15 years of professional experience specializing in Android mobile development. At sprylab technologies he combines hands-on app engineering with infrastructure and ops responsibilities, a blend that keeps projects both performant and production-ready. He is an active open-source contributor, notably improving the widely-used android-maven-plugin and enhancing the LicensesDialog library to better handle AAR artifacts, native libraries and dialog fragment integration. Philip’s background in applied computer science and practical IT apprenticeship informs his pragmatic approach to tooling, build systems, and dependency management. Colleagues rely on him for quietly solving tricky build and packaging issues that surface only at scale.
14 years of coding experience
Fachhochschulreife, IT Assistent, Fachhochschulreife, IT Assistent at OSZ Informations- und Medizintechnik
Bachelor of Science - BS, Angewandte Informatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Angewandte Informatik at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
LicensesDialog is an open source library to display licenses of third-party libraries in an Android app.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 234 commits in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the development of the LicensesDialog library, an open-source Android library for displaying licenses within Android applications. Their contributions included refactoring the dialog creation process, adding DialogFragments, and implementing features to include the project's own license. Furthermore, they addressed issues by fixing missing imports and updating dependencies.
Maven Plugin for Android Application development and more
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 41 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Philip primarily worked on the Android Maven Plugin, contributing to the packaging and processing of Android applications. Their contributions included improvements to the handling of native libraries and ProGuard configurations for AAR artifacts. They also addressed issues related to the generation of classes.jar when running sonar analysis and adjusted resource generation to align with AndroidBuilder.
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Philip Schiffer - Senior Software Developer Systemadministrator