Regularly, you'll run into use cases, where Picasso will load multiple images at the same time. Let's assume you're building an info screen which has a hero image on the top and smaller images at the bottom. For the user experience it'd be optimal that the hero image element is …

GitHub provides a powerful status API indicating if builds succeed or fail. Strider offers the ability to use this status API with the help of a plugin and attach build statuses to pull requests. We’re heading towards the end of this Strider series and want to show you an …

In the last blog posts, you've learned how to load images from various sources and how to use different kind of placeholders. This week's blog post is important if you cannot influence the size of the image to be loaded: resizing and scaling! {{outline}} {{video}} Image Resizing with resize(x, …

HipChat is used by many development teams due to its smooth integration with other Atlassian products like Jira or Bamboo. If you still want to use Strider to run your builds and deployments, you can notify rooms about statuses. Let’s look at the other posts in this extensive series …

After we demonstrated the basic networking, loading and caching capabilities of Picasso in the last three weeks, it's time to move to more advanced topics. This week, we'll cover all kinds of placeholders. Picasso does not only display images, it also got your back until the mentioned image is loaded; …

Slack seems to be the team messaging tool of the moment. And also Strider provides a plugin to connect with Slack and send notifications for either successful or failed test runs and deployments. In case you missed the previously published posts, let’s review the already released ones before diving …

The last two posts in this series have shown how to load a single image into an ImageView. This post will demonstrate a ListView implementation, where each row contains a single ImageView. This is similar to many image gallery apps. {{outline}} Sample Gallery Implementation: ListView First, we'll need some test …

The previous blog posts covered how to connect Strider with repository hosting services and automatically run tests. This article takes your Strider build pipeline a step further and illustrates the steps to activate email notifications for build statuses. First, let’s start with an overview of related Strider blogposts in …