In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to load images for a Grid- and ListView. You've upped the UI quality in the advanced ListView tutorial with the holder pattern and rounded images. Unfortunately, even with the holder pattern, a ListView can cause performance issues. Google's RecyclerView has the intention of …

Glide 4.x has introduced a new feature: the generated API. You've learned the basics of this new feature in our generated API tutorial. One upside of the generated API is that it's easy to extend. This allows you to centralize implementation patterns in your app. In this tutorial you'll …

In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to log image loading with the Android Studio Profiler. In this tutorial, you'll learn how you can analyze requests and responses using Facebook's Stetho debug tool. Stetho maps Glide's network activity to Chrome's developer tool. This offers the network information during the development …

In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to log image loading with the Android Studio Profiler. In this tutorial, you'll learn how you can analyze requests and responses using Facebook's Stetho debug tool. Stetho maps Picasso's network activity to Chrome's developer tool. This offers the network information during the development …

Retrofit uses some default network timeout settings, which might not fit your use case. If your app needs to be extra snappy, or in the other direction, if your server is slow, you might want to change those timeout settings. In this tutorial you'll learn how you can customize all …

In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to enable logging in Picasso. Unfortunately, this logging option only gives you very limited information and nothing specific to CPU load, memory usage, or the network. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Android Studio's Profiler to really drill into details of …

In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to enable logging in Glide. Unfortunately, this logging option only gives you very limited information and nothing specific to CPU load, memory usage, or the network. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Android Studio's Profiler to really drill into details of …

We were hesitant to write this tutorial, but due to the many, many requests: in this tutorial you will learn how to ignore the connection's security handshake and let Retrofit accept any, even bad SSL certificates. This includes revoked, expired or self-signed SSL certificates. Warning: ignoring SSL certificate validity is …