Google highly recommends to use ProGuard for release builds which get distributed via Google Play. We’ll guide you through the basic setup of ProGuard and show you how to configure Picasso in the phase of release preparation. First, let’s get a wrap up about ProGuard and afterwards we …

In the getting started with Retrofit tutorial you've implemented your first request against one GitHub endpoint. Hopefully, you're excited to try out more of Retrofit's functionality. In this tutorial, you'll learn in more detail how to describe API endpoints in Retrofit. {{outline}} {{video}} How to Describe API Endpoints As you've …

This is the third tutorial around pagination on Android. We’ve previously guided you through the details of partial responses with pagination using query parameter and response header including a dynamic url for further paginated requests. You see, as we’re showing you three implementations on pagination, this topic is …

In this blog post, we'll tackle one of the most complicated issues of any data mapping: dates and times. Over the last few decades programmers have developed hundreds of different formats of stating the date and time. Keep reading, if you want to learn how you can utilize some standard …

In a previous tutorial we've shown you the basics of Glide caches. In this tutorial we'll explain in more detail what the disk cache settings entail and how it can effect your loading times. Notice — September 20th 2017 Glide has released a 4.x version. We've updated this tutorial accordingly. …

Google highly recommends to use ProGuard for release builds which get distributed via Google Play. We’ll guide you through the basic setup of ProGuard and show you how to configure Glide in the phase of release preparation. First, let’s get a wrap up about ProGuard and afterwards we …

Pagination is an important aspect when developing clients against an API. In some cases, API endpoints return only subsets of a given resource set due to the amount of data that needs to be transferred to the client. Loading large data sets can (and should) be split into little chunks …

In this blog post, we'll combine the knowledge of two previous blog posts in one practical use case. You've learned how we can write custom deserializer and how you can annotate model classes with @JsonAdapter. In the next few sections, we'll use those to build a custom deserializer, which correctly …