In a previous tutorial you've learned how to download files with Retrofit. Depending on the use case and size of the file, you should consider displaying a download progress to the user. Your users appreciate seeing an informative download status view, instead of being in the dark and not knowing …

In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to log requests and responses in Retrofit using an OkHttp interceptor. The interceptor is set up in a few minutes, but has the disadvantage of logging everything to the Android log, which is not the easiest way to access the complex information. In …

After publishing four tutorials specifically tailored to uploading files with Retrofit 2, we're still not done yet. In this tutorial we'll go a step further and show you how to show progress updates in the UI when the app is uploading files with Retrofit 2. This can be very useful …

In our extensive Retrofit series we show developers how to implement all kinds of API interactions from the client side on Android. In our hapi.js series developers can learn how to provide API endpoints from the server side to clients. Most of the technical tutorials assume some basic knowledge …

In the previous Gson blog posts, we've always read and written JSON from and to fully allocated memory objects. We assumed that the application already has the entire JSON file in memory. In this blog post, we'll explore Gson's support in cases that isn't possible. Gson makes it easy to …

Glide makes loading images in your Android app quite efficient. Powerful caches avoid loading images over the (mobile) network as much as possible. However, that's not always feasible. Glide has to load images from the Internet when they're not in one of the caches yet. Loading images over the network …

In this blog post, we'll get practical one more time. Often Android apps require to store smaller objects, for example user information. On one hand, it's often overkill to add a database to the app for just this purpose. On the other hand, it's a hassle to store everything in …

Glide has a fairly complex caching system, which we've described in the tutorials on caching basics and best cache preferences. Vijoy consequently asked, if it's possible that Glide ignores (some) query parameters during the cache lookup. For example, if you have to send an access token, which changes every few …