After you've learned how to load images from all kinds of sources and how to display them in ListViews, this tutorial is all about placeholders, which bridge the time until the image loading. Notice — August 25th 2017 Glide has released a 4.0.0 version. We've updated this tutorial accordingly. …

Back in May 2015 we updated our server setup and started to use a bunch of new tools to avoid server administration headaches. We mostly rely on Node.js apps (Ghost, our homepage is built on hapi, Strider) and wanted a reliable process manager to keep started servers alive. We …

A few weeks ago we published a post about setting different permissions for each productFlavor. Some requested if this is possible for dependencies as well, so here it is: in this blog post, we'll show you how to set up productFlavor-dependent dependencies. Related Posts Android: How to Implement ProductFlavor-Dependent Permissions …

Retrofit is a great HTTP client for Android (and Java) and the second major release will be available by the end of 2015. We already published an extensive series on Retrofit in the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015. Due to the popularity of this series, we decided to …

Since we heard that our previous Android Quick Tips added some value to a bunch of developers, we've decided to continue this series with a variety of topics. This week we'll look at the Gradle build system. {{outline}} Speeding Up Your Builds Of course, all of us would love having …

The first two tutorials in this Glide series have shown how to load a single image into an ImageView from either an Internet URL or other sources. This tutorial will demonstrate adapter implementations for ListView and GridView, where each cell contains a single ImageView. This is similar to many image …

There is no new technical blog post today, sorry if you were waiting for another helping guide. Instead, we’ve great news to share and didn’t tell anyone before: we’ll start the Future Studio Content Flash 2015 on Thursday, October 1st! What Is This Content Flash Thing? Great …

In the first tutorial, we've looked why you should use Glide and a simple example request to load an image from an Internet source. But this is not the only possible image source for Glide. Glide can also load images from the Android resources, files and URIs. In this tutorial, …