In the past tutorials, you've learned the basics of Retrofit call adapters, how to integrate RxJava 1.x interfaces and RxJava 2.x interfaces to your Retrofit callbacks. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Retrofit's request callbacks into your Guava flow. {{outline}} Integration of Retrofit Callbacks into Your …

Using Retrofit for your Android app's networking can make your life so much easier. However, Retrofit's design requires a single Retrofit instance for each API with a different base URL. Consequently, if your app is talking to two or more APIs (under different URLs), you'll need to deal with at …

One frustrating element of our work life as Android developers is that we're often dependent of APIs. APIs can be unfinished, broken, or just slow, which all stall app development. It can be frustrating if we're trying to polish some UI elements, but cannot finish the work because of an …

In the past weeks, you read an introduction to Retrofit call adapters and how to integrate various first-party call adapters (RxJava 1.x, RxJava 2.x, Guava). In another tutorial, you've learned how to implement a custom call adapter. In that tutorial, you implemented a custom call adapter, which separates …

Another great year for us Android developers has passed. It's time to get excited for the new year 2018! It's also time to reflect and plan for the next twelve months: What should we learn? What's the next big thing in the Android world? Here is our high-level view of …

Call adapters are a powerful tool for Retrofit developers. You've learned the basics of Retrofit call adapters in our introduction to call adapters tutorial. We've also published a tutorial on how to integrate RxJava 1.x flow interfaces to your Retrofit callbacks. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate …

Loading images from a server is an error-prone process. The server can be down, the user can be on a slow mobile connection, or completely lose Internet connection. By default, Glide has some timeouts set for you to balance between waiting long enough for the image to be loaded and …

Retrofit is mainly used to interact with well-defined REST APIs. Nevertheless, you can also use Retrofit to crawl HTML sources of websites. In this tutorial, you'll explore how to utilize jspoon and Retrofit to automatically extract content from Wikipedia. In a practical example you'll understand the basic functionality of jspoon …