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 …

A sign-up flow, with an email address and password, is one of the de-facto features web apps implement. Assumingly, every web developer has implemented this part of a boilerplate themselves 😉 You know what? That’s totally fine because it’s important to know the fundamentals of all this and that …

Developer tools are a minefield. We’re so picky about the tools we use and require a high quality or don’t even consider them. You have an ingrained workflow if you’re like me, you behave like a robot when starting your programming. Update — February 28th 2018 The code …

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 …

We’ve mentioned in the introductory tutorial and the stack preparation that your Futureflix implementation uses MongoDB to store data. You won’t interact with MongoDB using the Node.js driver. Instead, you’ll use Mongoose to model your application and save, update or delete objects within the datastore. This …