This is another tutorial in the Retrofit series. It explains how to integrate authentication with username/email and password with Retrofit. Update — October 22nd 2015 We’ve added new code examples for Retrofit 2 besides the existing ones for Retrofit 1.9. We’ve also published an extensive Retrofit upgrade …

This is the first tutorial in an extensive series on Retrofit. The series dives through all aspects of Retrofit and prepares you for many potential use cases. You’ll get to know Retrofit’s range of functions and extensibility. Update — October 21st 2015 We’ve added new code examples for …

When using ActiveAndroid you may face the problem that the database Model class already declears an id field as primary key and you actually need that id field for your own purposes. The following will describe how to change the primary key identifier of ActiveAndroid so you can use your …

I discovered this little trick a year ago and it was immensely helpful. So far, whenever I was working on my Android apps, I had to connect it to my laptop with a USB cable. The USB cable is annoying and limits my movements. Consequently, I was researching, if there …

Currently, I'm working on a project which relies a lot on its notifications. So far, the logic was fairly simple: display the notification if there is already a notification, replace the previous one The code for that logic is to use the same ID when creating the notification: // constant notification …

The nicest things are details. It's all about details, always. We were looking for nice effects to remove the break when loading recipe pictures for eatfoody and came across dominant picture colors. Concretely, the dominant picture color is the color that describes the given picture best in one color code. …

This error is strange, because it appears when you're trying to install a new package globally with NPM, npm install -g <package-name>. The output of this command is something like this: npm ERR! peerinvalid The package grunt does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements! npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer …

Recently, I was refactoring some Jade views of an ExpressJS application which shared significant JavaScript code. The JavaScript part required some variables from the server. Generally, this can be done like this: script(type='text/javascript'). var user = !{JSON.stringify(userObject)}; Previously, the project had the following structure for many …