The system process of Node.js starts your applications with a default memory limit. If you’re going to run an application that saves a lot of data into variables and therefore memory, you may run into a Node.js process exit due to allocation issues. Increasing Node’s memory …

In a previous tutorial we've shown you the basics of Glide caches. In this tutorial we'll explain in more detail what the disk cache settings entail and how it can effect your loading times. Notice — September 20th 2017 Glide has released a 4.x version. We've updated this tutorial accordingly. …

Google highly recommends to use ProGuard for release builds which get distributed via Google Play. We’ll guide you through the basic setup of ProGuard and show you how to configure Glide in the phase of release preparation. First, let’s get a wrap up about ProGuard and afterwards we …

Handling request headers isn’t a use case that comes to mind immediately when thinking through the development process of your app. You might think of routes, requests, appropriate responses and the design of your views. And at some point, you’re in a more advanced development stage and see …

Node.js developers are very familiar with the callback pattern. During the last years, a common practice has taken place within the community: error-first callbacks. That was quite sufficient for the last years. Now that promises and generator functions are around the corner, it’s time to start thinking outside …

In the previous Gson blog post, we've introduced how you can change the (de)serialization naming of a model property. If your server expects (or sends) properties with a different name, you can use @SerializedName to work around the difference. In this blog post, we'll show you how you can …

In our last Retrofit post we've given you an introduction to converters. In this blog post, we want to dive deeper into the most common format: JSON. After demonstrating the integration of the Gson converter, we'll also show you how to customize Gson's mapping rules. If you prefer to catch …

In the previous tutorial on ListViews with images we've only looked at examples where the entire adapter item is an ImageView. The approach still applies if one or more ImageViews are only a (small) part of the adapter item. Your getView() code will look a little different, but the loading …