Welcome back to another blog post in our Gson series. After reviewing the basics of Gson, model annotations and mapping of nested objects, we'll go on to a core feature: mapping of Arrays and Lists. Almost every data model out there utilizes some form of list. Fortunately, Gson makes it …

Within the previous tutorial, you learned how to add routes to your application and handle requests with their related responses. When building web applications, the need to serve files arises quickly. And with that, you also need routes to respond requests with file resources. If you’re serving HTML views …

In the Gson blog posts, we've explored the basic functionality. In this blog post, we'll move more towards more realistic data and look at nested objects. You'll learn how easy it is to work with objects, which includes additional complex data. This is only one post in our comprehensive Gson …

This tutorial is part of an extensive hapi series that guides you through the framework’s fundamentals. Within the previous guides, you’ve already learned how to get your server up and running and further how to install and create plugins leveraging hapi’s powerful plugin system. This guide walks …

After publishing over 50 Retrofit blog posts we've gathered enough feedback that a lot of developers would love an extensive introduction to Google's Gson. Gson is a very powerful library to map data structures represented as JSON to Java objects. Of course, it also supports the other way around and …

This guide continues on extending your server’s functionality with the help of plugins. Within the previous tutorial, you’ve learned how to register a plugin to your hapi server instance and with that increase the servers feature set. Also, we’ve described hapi’s efficient plugin system and the …

We're back with another Picasso transformation post. We've already shown you how to transform images in a previous post. There are a few implementations for Picasso transformations floating around on the Internet, but it's tedious work to find a good one for your need. In this blog post, we'll show …

Within last week’s tutorial, you’ve learned how to get your first hapi server up and running. This guide will continue on that basis and you’ll extend the server’s functionality by adding a plugin that enhances log output. Actually, it’s important to understand hapi’s powerful …