In the last tutorial, we've explored the modern way of implementing custom fonts on Android. However, it broke the support for dynamically changing the font style and weights (for example, bold or italic). In this tutorial, we'll fix this drawback and configure a font family with different styles. {{outline}} {{video} …

In today's competitive app market on Google Play, a beautiful, polished app is necessary to be successful. Custom fonts are an important element of taking an app to the next level and distinct yourselves from the mass. We discussed this in our first tutorials on how to implement custom fonts …

Your initial API documentation for Futureflix uses hapi-swagger to generate an endpoint overview from your project configuration. By default, hapi-swagger registers the /documentation route. If you want another path, like /docs, you can customize it. You’ll do that in a minute 😉 Besides the API documentation URL, you can tell …

Your Futureflix API grows in functionality and only you know how to use it. It’s important to document endpoints as early as possible so that external developers get a grasp on using it. Especially for the reason that you don’t want to do the “boring” documentation at the …

Validating incoming user data is an important piece of your API. Make sure you heavily rely on hapi’s built-in validation features. The hapi core framework works great with the help of a schema validation library, called Joi. Never ever trust input data! On your end, provide helpful error messages …

Request validation in hapi is a powerful feature and allows you to define fine-grained validation rules. In the previous tutorial, you put validation rules in place for the API TV show endpoint which returns a list of shows. Failed validations for the page and extend query parameters are handled by …

Relations in Mongoose provide JOIN-like functionality and extend documents with related ones from other collections. In case of Futureflix, you know that a TV show has one or many seasons and each season has many episodes. You can imagine the large JSON result for a long-running TV show with a …

Travis CI is a sophisticated continuous integration and deployment service. It integrates with GitHub and runs tests on events like commits or pull requests. {{outline}} {{video}} At this point, we published two hapi plugins. Testing both plugins is an essential part of our development flow to know they are mature …