As a regular reader of this blog, you’ve already noticed that we’re huge fanboys of Retrofit. What started out with a series of 14 blog posts, is grown to a pipeline of more than 35 posts in the Retrofit series. It has been an impressive and overwhelming journey …

We're continuing our Android Quick Tips series with a practical topic. In this short blog post we'll show you how to dynamically tint your action bar menu item icons. If you're interested in our previous Android Quick Tips, take a look: {{outline}} Dynamically Tinting Menu Items If you're developing an …

In the previous blog posts, we've looked at loading images into ListViews with Picasso and how to use placeholders. You've learned that Picasso expects non-null and valid URLs. In this blog post, we'll show you how to deal with null values, especially in ListViews, where the re-usage of views can …

After walking you through seven blog posts on how to add custom fonts to your Android app, we'll show you a way which barely requires any work: using a library. There are quite a few custom font libraries out there, but we've limited this short introduction to our two favorites: …

It has been a while since our last post in this custom fonts on Android series. We decided to extend it for two more blog posts due to the popularity and the excellent question from Alex Morozov: how do you add support for non-standard typefaces, like extra bold or extra …

Quite a long time ago we started our series on the image loading library Glide. What was planned as a pretty short series got longer and longer over time. We appreciate your continuous interest and feedback. We hope you learned as much as we did. Let's review what topics we've …

A little while ago, we got a question on how to rotate images with Glide, since Picasso offers this functionality out-of-the-box. Unfortunately, Glide does not offer this as one little method call, but in this tutorial we'll show you how to make it almost as easy. Notice — September 19th 2017 …

In the last tutorial, you've seen how to declare and configure a Glide module, which adds the image size to the request. This is a very powerful optimization. However, it's important to know that declared Glide modules are always active. By default, you cannot dynamically turn them off or on. …