In the previous Gson blog posts, we've always read and written JSON from and to fully allocated memory objects. We assumed that the application already has the entire JSON file in memory. In this blog post, we'll explore Gson's support in cases that isn't possible. Gson makes it easy to …

In this blog post, we'll get practical one more time. Often Android apps require to store smaller objects, for example user information. On one hand, it's often overkill to add a database to the app for just this purpose. On the other hand, it's a hassle to store everything in …

In this blog post, we'll explore an interesting behavior of Gson: HTML escaping. By default, Gson escapes typical HTML characters, like < or > to \u003c and \u003e. If your server can handle these tags just fine, you might be interested in disabling this behavior. In this tutorial we'll show …

We've already shown you in a previous tutorial how to upload files and how to upload multiple files to a server. In this tutorial, we'll show you a way of uploading multiple files with one request without knowing how many files it'll be. This is useful when the user can …

In this blog post, we'll give you a list of some alternatives to Gson. Since it's such an important task of converting Java objects to JSON and vice versa, quite a few libraries popped up. We personally like Gson a lot, but there is no reason not to broaden one's …

Retrofit offers a wide range of functionalities and there are a lot of possible configurations. A lot of larger applications will require some specific setup, for example for OAuth authentication. In order to achieve a clean and stable project, we'll introduce you our idea of a sustainable Android client: the …

In the getting started with Retrofit tutorial you've implemented your first request against one GitHub endpoint. Hopefully, you're excited to try out more of Retrofit's functionality. In this tutorial, you'll learn in more detail how to describe API endpoints in Retrofit. {{outline}} {{video}} How to Describe API Endpoints As you've …

In this blog post, we'll tackle one of the most complicated issues of any data mapping: dates and times. Over the last few decades programmers have developed hundreds of different formats of stating the date and time. Keep reading, if you want to learn how you can utilize some standard …