The image loading library Picasso prefers to use OkHttp as it's network stack. Recently, OkHttp 3 was released with some major changes and improvements. As the time of writing, the latest Picasso version is 2.5.2 and isn't compatible with the improved OkHttp 3. In this blog post, we'll …

This post kicks off a new series on hapi, a Node.js web services framework. Hapi provides a solid foundation that lets you fully focus on building your application by shipping with built-in support for plugins, authentication, caching, input validation, and many more essential features! Update — hapi 17 ready The …

In the past few days and weeks we've shown you a lot of details on how to work with Retrofit 2. In this and the next blog post we'll show you a significant component of Retrofit: converters. If converters don't take your breath away, you might find a more interesting …

Within the previous posts, you’ve already learned how to query documents by fields of nested objects and how to add custom methods to a Thinky model. This guide still focuses on models, but shifts gears to relations. Precisely, you’ll learn how to apply sorting on joined documents. Before …

Within a previous guide, you’ve learned how to send objects in request body using Retrofit and based on that topic, Marty asked a good question: how to send plain text as payload with a request? That’s exactly what you’ll take away from this guide :) Before heading towards …

We’ve touched Thinky last week and showed you how to query documents by fields of a nested object. This week, we’re continuing on Thinky with another post showing you how to extend your Model definition by adding custom methods. Before diving into the details, have a look at …

Requesting data from an API can include user defined filters for specific data. A common scenario is to filter a single item from its resource collection by using a query or path parameter. Depending on the API implementation, you’re probably using the same endpoint to request different data with …

Thinky is a lightweight Node.js ORM for RethinkDB. The library helps you to define models representing the objects you’re using within your code. Further, you can define various relations between each of your models. Primarily, Thinky helps you to CRUD documents in RethinkDB out of your Node.js …