Retrofit uses some default network timeout settings, which might not fit your use case. If your app needs to be extra snappy, or in the other direction, if your server is slow, you might want to change those timeout settings. In this tutorial you'll learn how you can customize all …

In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to enable logging in Picasso. Unfortunately, this logging option only gives you very limited information and nothing specific to CPU load, memory usage, or the network. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Android Studio's Profiler to really drill into details of …

In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to enable logging in Glide. Unfortunately, this logging option only gives you very limited information and nothing specific to CPU load, memory usage, or the network. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Android Studio's Profiler to really drill into details of …

We were hesitant to write this tutorial, but due to the many, many requests: in this tutorial you will learn how to ignore the connection's security handshake and let Retrofit accept any, even bad SSL certificates. This includes revoked, expired or self-signed SSL certificates. Warning: ignoring SSL certificate validity is …

In the last few weeks we've updated our 25+ Glide tutorials to Glide 4.x. All tutorials are now suitable to teach you the features for Glide 3.x and Glide 4.x. But what if you want to upgrade from 3.x to 4.x? In our opinion, the …

When working with Picasso, at some point you'll run into the following scenario: Picasso shows the error placeholder and you can't figure out why. Even when you activate logging you'll only see that loading an image failed, but not the reason for the failure. In this tutorial, you'll learn how …

In a previous tutorial, we've explored unwrapping response envelopes. Of course, there also are APIs where you wrap the requests into envelopes. If every request is wrapped in an envelope, this will make your app's code unnecessary complex, because you've to create the envelope for every request manually. In this …

In the Retrofit getting started tutorial you've learned how to create an Android app that connects to the public GitHub API and accesses objects on the server. In following tutorials you've learned how to create new objects and update existing ones. In this tutorial you'll learn how delete objects on …