After you've learned how to load images from all kinds of sources and how to display them in ListViews, this tutorial is all about placeholders, which bridge the time until the image loading. Notice — August 25th 2017 Glide has released a 4.0.0 version. We've updated this tutorial accordingly. …

A few weeks ago we published a post about setting different permissions for each productFlavor. Some requested if this is possible for dependencies as well, so here it is: in this blog post, we'll show you how to set up productFlavor-dependent dependencies. Related Posts Android: How to Implement ProductFlavor-Dependent Permissions …

Retrofit is a great HTTP client for Android (and Java) and the second major release will be available by the end of 2015. We already published an extensive series on Retrofit in the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015. Due to the popularity of this series, we decided to …

Since we heard that our previous Android Quick Tips added some value to a bunch of developers, we've decided to continue this series with a variety of topics. This week we'll look at the Gradle build system. {{outline}} Speeding Up Your Builds Of course, all of us would love having …

The first two tutorials in this Glide series have shown how to load a single image into an ImageView from either an Internet URL or other sources. This tutorial will demonstrate adapter implementations for ListView and GridView, where each cell contains a single ImageView. This is similar to many image …

In the first tutorial, we've looked why you should use Glide and a simple example request to load an image from an Internet source. But this is not the only possible image source for Glide. Glide can also load images from the Android resources, files and URIs. In this tutorial, …

After a lot of success and feedback on our Picasso series, we're following the requests to do an extensive series on another amazing image loading library: Glide. Glide, like Picasso, can load and display images from many sources, while also taking care of caching and keeping a low memory impact …

A few months ago we were working on a client app project, which releases many different brands from the same core project. In order to keep the code base simple and easy to work with, we're using one android project with one productFlavor for each brand. Some of these brands …