In this blog post, we'll tackle one of the most complicated issues of any data mapping: dates and times. Over the last few decades programmers have developed hundreds of different formats of stating the date and time. Keep reading, if you want to learn how you can utilize some standard …

In a previous tutorial we've shown you the basics of Glide caches. In this tutorial we'll explain in more detail what the disk cache settings entail and how it can effect your loading times. Notice — September 20th 2017 Glide has released a 4.x version. We've updated this tutorial accordingly. …

Google highly recommends to use ProGuard for release builds which get distributed via Google Play. We’ll guide you through the basic setup of ProGuard and show you how to configure Glide in the phase of release preparation. First, let’s get a wrap up about ProGuard and afterwards we …

Handling request headers isn’t a use case that comes to mind immediately when thinking through the development process of your app. You might think of routes, requests, appropriate responses and the design of your views. And at some point, you’re in a more advanced development stage and see …

Pagination is an important aspect when developing clients against an API. In some cases, API endpoints return only subsets of a given resource set due to the amount of data that needs to be transferred to the client. Loading large data sets can (and should) be split into little chunks …

Node.js developers are very familiar with the callback pattern. During the last years, a common practice has taken place within the community: error-first callbacks. That was quite sufficient for the last years. Now that promises and generator functions are around the corner, it’s time to start thinking outside …

In this blog post, we'll combine the knowledge of two previous blog posts in one practical use case. You've learned how we can write custom deserializer and how you can annotate model classes with @JsonAdapter. In the next few sections, we'll use those to build a custom deserializer, which correctly …

In an earlier published tutorial, we’ve touched the topic of filtering documents by fields of nested objects using Thinky. With the native support of joins in RethinkDB, you’re able to structure your documents with relations between individual Thinky models. That means, splitting up your nested objects into separate …