The previous tutorials guided you through various use cases of Retrofit and showed you opportunities to enhance the app with Retrofit’s built-in functionality. This tutorial will show you how to upload a file to a backend server using the second major release of Retrofit, namely Retrofit 2. {{outline}} {{video} …

We've been through various Android Quick Tips. This week we'll focus on Intents. {{outline}} Internal use of startActivityForResult() Every Android developer is aware of the startActivityForResult(Intent i) to call external apps to do something specific and get the result back, like calling the camera app to take a photo. …

After we've looked at loading, displaying and manipulating images, we'll move on to optimize the process. One of the fundamental features of successful and efficient image loading is caching. In this post, we'll go through the basics of caching in Glide. Notice — August 30th 2017 Glide has released a 4. …

After looking at various Android Quick Tips, this week we'll look at a few more of our favorite productivity tips for Android Studio. {{outline}} Shortcuts, Shortcuts, Shortcuts Shortcuts are the single most important "hack" for developer productivity. Your development time is valuable, and often, when you're in the flow, your …

In the previous tutorials you've looked at displaying images from all kind of sources. You've learned how to manipulate the image display, change the size and scaling of the images with standard options. This tutorial will show you a unique feature of Glide: displaying Gifs and thumbnails of local videos. …

After posts focused on development work (Gradle and Debugging), this week we'll look at a topic more related to marketing: screen capturing. For promo or instructional videos, it's often necessary to record what's happening on the screen. In this blog post, we'll show you three options. {{outline}} Screen Capturing for …

In the last tutorials, you've learned how to load images from various sources and how to use different kinds of placeholders. This week's tutorial is important if you cannot influence the size of the images: resizing and scaling! Notice — August 28th 2017 Glide has released a 4.0.0 version. …

Recently, we've published a guide on how to add dependencies for only specific productFlavors. After we've implemented the steps necessary, we wanted to make sure that the final .apk actually does not contain any unwanted classes anymore. In this post, we'll show you how to check which classes and resources …