After publishing over 50 Retrofit blog posts we've gathered enough feedback that a lot of developers would love an extensive introduction to Google's Gson. Gson is a very powerful library to map data structures represented as JSON to Java objects. Of course, it also supports the other way around and …

This guide continues on extending your server’s functionality with the help of plugins. Within the previous tutorial, you’ve learned how to register a plugin to your hapi server instance and with that increase the servers feature set. Also, we’ve described hapi’s efficient plugin system and the …

Within last week’s tutorial, you’ve learned how to get your first hapi server up and running. This guide will continue on that basis and you’ll extend the server’s functionality by adding a plugin that enhances log output. Actually, it’s important to understand hapi’s powerful …

This post kicks off a new series on hapi, a Node.js web services framework. Hapi provides a solid foundation that lets you fully focus on building your application by shipping with built-in support for plugins, authentication, caching, input validation, and many more essential features! Update — hapi 17 ready The …

Within a previous guide, you’ve learned how to send objects in request body using Retrofit and based on that topic, Marty asked a good question: how to send plain text as payload with a request? That’s exactly what you’ll take away from this guide :) Before heading towards …

We’ve touched Thinky last week and showed you how to query documents by fields of a nested object. This week, we’re continuing on Thinky with another post showing you how to extend your Model definition by adding custom methods. Before diving into the details, have a look at …

Thinky is a lightweight Node.js ORM for RethinkDB. The library helps you to define models representing the objects you’re using within your code. Further, you can define various relations between each of your models. Primarily, Thinky helps you to CRUD documents in RethinkDB out of your Node.js …

This is the second post taking a closer look at the new Retrofit 2 Call class. If you haven't read the first part, where we look on how to reuse and analyze the request using the Call class, check it out here. In this blog post, we'll show you how …