The latest release of Retrofit 1 (1.9.0) directly depends on OkHttp 2.2.0. For Retrofit 2, the developers introduced multiple breaking changes, because Retrofit in its second major release actually uses OkHttp instead of working with and around it. That means, OkHttp got a lot attention and …

In the last tutorial, we went through the process of setting up our own Glide module to use a custom HTTP client, which accepts self-signed HTTPS certificates. This week, we stay on a low level and look at options to customize the caching components of Glide. Notice — September 14th 2017 …

In our last Glide tutorial, you've learned the basics of GlideModules. They provide an easy access to some fundamental functions of Glide's core. You can quickly modify Glide's behavior by implementing and declaring GlideModules. Last week, we've changed the image quality to a higher decode format by utilizing the applyOptions( …

In the last tutorial, we've looked at how you can set various network stacks for Glide to load your images. Internally, the integration libraries for the network stacks are nothing else than declaring a GlideModule, which is a way of significantly customize Glide's behavior. In this tutorial, we'll give you …

After learning about various options for loading and displaying images, we'll look at changing the fundamental network stack for Glide. This guide assumes you're using Gradle. Notice — September 11th 2017 Glide has released a 4.x version. We've updated this tutorial accordingly. It is now for both versions, the previous …

In the last tutorial, we've looked at transforming images before displaying them. We continue in this tutorial with the option of animating the display of images. Notice — September 08th 2017 Glide has released a 4.0.0 version. We've updated this tutorial accordingly. It is now for both versions, the …

In the previous tutorials, you've learned all the fundamentals required to utilize the standard capabilities of Glide. Starting with this tutorial, and moving forward, we'll dive deep into a bunch of advanced topics. In this tutorial, we'll take a closer look at transformations. Notice — September 07th 2017 Glide has released …

After introducing all fundamental concepts of Glide, we'll move to a developer topic today. In this tutorial, we'll show you a few helpful ways to debug issues you might experience during the image loading process with Glide. Notice — September 06th 2017 Glide has released a 4.0.0 version. We've …