In a previous blog post we've shown you how to enable logging of requests and responses with Retrofit 2. We also explained that you should only enable logging for development builds only. We recommended that production versions should have logging disabled. In this blog post we'll show you how to …

In this blog post, we'll extend the journey on writing a custom Gson serializer. In the first part we've shown all basics of setting up the code to customize Gson's JSON serialization. If you haven't read it yet, you might want to do so now, since this blog post is …

Within the last months we’ve been adding and changing functionality on our homepage to create a comprehensive learning platform. What started out as a blog grew rapidly to a place where you could find solutions for your Android and Node.js problems. And that’s the reason we follow …

In this blog post, we'll show how you can simplify the customization of (de)serialization. In the past few blog posts, we've demonstrated how to customize serialization, deserialization and how to utilize instance creators. All of those options were only available via a custom Gson instance and some boilerplate code. …

In this blog post, we'll look at one more component when it comes to custom deserialization. In the past few blog posts, we've explored how to customize the serialization and deserialization of your data. In both cases we're trying to mitigate differences in the data models between server and client. …

In this blog post, we'll look on how to implement custom Gson deserialization. If your server sends you data in a format, which doesn't match your client's application data model, keep reading! Of course, this will not be the only post in our Gson series. If you're interested in the …

Due to the popularity of the Retrofit blog post series published within the Future Studio University, and the positive feedback on our Retrofit book, we’ve decided to publish a series on Gson and consequently, as with a bunch of our Android series, an additional book. A vast majority of …

In this blog post, we'll explore how we can customize the Gson serialization of Java objects. There are many reasons why you might want to change the serialization, e.g. simplifying your model to reduce the amount of data sent or removing personal information. Now we'll look into the simplification …