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 …

Virtuals are additional fields for a given model. Their values can be set manually or automatically with defined functionality. A common virtual property is the full name of a person, composed of user’s first and last name. Keep in mind: virtual properties don’t get persisted in the database. …

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 …

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 …

NodeJS ships with the awesome node package manager: NPM. NPM allows to install dependencies defined for your project via package.json. When running a node app in production you want it to install as quick as possible. Pushing new code into the app repository will probably start the continuous integration …

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 …