Glide makes loading images in your Android app quite efficient. Powerful caches avoid loading images over the (mobile) network as much as possible. However, that's not always feasible. Glide has to load images from the Internet when they're not in one of the caches yet. Loading images over the network …

In this blog post, we'll get practical one more time. Often Android apps require to store smaller objects, for example user information. On one hand, it's often overkill to add a database to the app for just this purpose. On the other hand, it's a hassle to store everything in …

Glide has a fairly complex caching system, which we've described in the tutorials on caching basics and best cache preferences. Vijoy consequently asked, if it's possible that Glide ignores (some) query parameters during the cache lookup. For example, if you have to send an access token, which changes every few …

In this blog post, we'll explore an interesting behavior of Gson: HTML escaping. By default, Gson escapes typical HTML characters, like < or > to \u003c and \u003e. If your server can handle these tags just fine, you might be interested in disabling this behavior. In this tutorial we'll show …

We've already shown you in a previous tutorial how to upload files and how to upload multiple files to a server. In this tutorial, we'll show you a way of uploading multiple files with one request without knowing how many files it'll be. This is useful when the user can …

In this blog post, we'll give you a list of some alternatives to Gson. Since it's such an important task of converting Java objects to JSON and vice versa, quite a few libraries popped up. We personally like Gson a lot, but there is no reason not to broaden one's …

In our last Retrofit tutorial, we've introduced mocking server responses with MockRetrofit. We've mentioned on the side that we're using the NetworkBehavior class, but didn't go into the details of the configuration options. In this tutorial, we'll make up for that. In case you need to make up for missed …

Retrofit offers a wide range of functionalities and there are a lot of possible configurations. A lot of larger applications will require some specific setup, for example for OAuth authentication. In order to achieve a clean and stable project, we'll introduce you our idea of a sustainable Android client: the …