In the last few years, the app stores grew to marketplaces with millions of apps. In order to be successful, you'll need a combination of innovation, marketing & user-friendly design. In this series, we'll look at a small element of the latter. {{outline}} {{video}} Why Custom Fonts? Android uses the …

After diving deep into the art of using Retrofit for network requests, we'll look in this post at the debugging capabilities of Retrofit. Let's review the covered topics in our Retrofit series. {{outline}} Logging in Retrofit 2 We’ve published a blog post on how to debug requests using Retrofit …

If you have been following the development of Android in the last few months, you noticed that Google pushes to separate the monolithic Android system into a lot of smaller components. While this is great for the end users and security reasons, it raises a few question marks for us …

This post is all about how to integrate an XML converter with Retrofit. Before we go on, let's have a look at the other articles in the series of Retrofit posts. Update — October 23rd 2015 We’ve added new code examples for Retrofit 2 besides the existing ones for Retrofit …

Most Android developers use the preview functionality of their IDE to see a live version of their XML layouts. Complex designs can be hard to grasp and to adjust. With the preview, you generally are able to get an overview of the layout simulated on a real device within seconds, …

The previous post guided you through the options to add custom headers to your requests. Today, we’re diving into the topic on how to use Retrofit to make request parameters optional. Update — October 22nd 2015 We’ve added new code examples for Retrofit 2 besides the existing ones for …

You’ve already learned how to integrate authentication with Retrofit, how to pass multiple query parameter values for the same identifier. Additionally, if you read the previously published articles within this series, you know how to create your own custom response converter and register it into the Retrofit instance. This …

This post describes how to set your custom JSON converter in Retrofit. There are more posts in the Retrofit series. Find previous posts in the list below Update — October 23rd 2015 Implementing your custom response converter for Retrofit 2 is a kind of extensive process. You can read in another …