In the last tutorials, we've seen a bunch of various customizations for Glide using Glide modules. We'll show you the last example today, but possibly the most interesting one: how to request images in specific dimensions from your server. Notice — September 15th 2017 Glide has released a 4.x version. …

The latest release of Retrofit 1 (1.9.0) directly depends on OkHttp 2.2.0. For Retrofit 2, the developers introduced multiple breaking changes, because Retrofit in its second major release actually uses OkHttp instead of working with and around it. That means, OkHttp got a lot attention and …

In the last tutorial, we went through the process of setting up our own Glide module to use a custom HTTP client, which accepts self-signed HTTPS certificates. This week, we stay on a low level and look at options to customize the caching components of Glide. Notice — September 14th 2017 …

Everyone is seeking for productivity boosts day by day, like learning new shortcuts in your favorite IDE, a new command on the Unix shell or something else. If you’re just starting out or already familiar with PM2 commands, it’s always nice to have an auto-completion feature. This post …

In our last Glide tutorial, you've learned the basics of GlideModules. They provide an easy access to some fundamental functions of Glide's core. You can quickly modify Glide's behavior by implementing and declaring GlideModules. Last week, we've changed the image quality to a higher decode format by utilizing the applyOptions( …

Log handling is an essential key factor in process management. Even though you might not be interested in your logs if everything went smooth. Wait for your first downtime and app failures and you’ll find your fastest way to get proper information about the current application situation within your …

In the last tutorial, we've looked at how you can set various network stacks for Glide to load your images. Internally, the integration libraries for the network stacks are nothing else than declaring a GlideModule, which is a way of significantly customize Glide's behavior. In this tutorial, we'll give you …

Within this article, we’re going to explore an advanced way to declare and start your applications. If you read the previous article on process management with PM2, you’re familiar with starting applications from command line. PM2 offers another way to start applications: by using an app declaration file …