In the last few years, the app stores grew to marketplaces with millions of apps. In order to be successful, you'll need a combination of innovation, marketing & user-friendly design. In this series, we'll look at a small element of the latter. {{outline}} {{video}} Why Custom Fonts? Android uses the …

Virtuals are additional fields for a given model. Their values can be set manually or automatically with defined functionality. A common virtual property is the full name of a person, composed of user’s first and last name. Keep in mind: virtual properties don’t get persisted in the database. …

Virtuals are additional fields for a given model. Their values can be set manually or automatically with defined functionality. A common virtual property is the full name of a person, composed of user’s first and last name. Keep in mind: virtual properties don’t get persisted in the database. …

We’re in the transition to establish the Future Studio brand and just released our new (minimalist) homepage. The startpage presents and previews released projects. Additionally, we now share our personal favorites and the generalized about page. You may wonder, why the layouts of homepage and blog are very different: …

After diving deep into the art of using Retrofit for network requests, we'll look in this post at the debugging capabilities of Retrofit. Let's review the covered topics in our Retrofit series. {{outline}} Logging in Retrofit 2 We’ve published a blog post on how to debug requests using Retrofit …

If you have been following the development of Android in the last few months, you noticed that Google pushes to separate the monolithic Android system into a lot of smaller components. While this is great for the end users and security reasons, it raises a few question marks for us …

This post is all about how to integrate an XML converter with Retrofit. Before we go on, let's have a look at the other articles in the series of Retrofit posts. Update — October 23rd 2015 We’ve added new code examples for Retrofit 2 besides the existing ones for Retrofit …

Most Android developers use the preview functionality of their IDE to see a live version of their XML layouts. Complex designs can be hard to grasp and to adjust. With the preview, you generally are able to get an overview of the layout simulated on a real device within seconds, …