In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to load images for a Grid- and ListView. You've upped the UI quality in the advanced ListView tutorial with the holder pattern and rounded images. Unfortunately, even with the holder pattern, a ListView can cause performance issues. Google's RecyclerView has the intention of …

In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to log image loading with the Android Studio Profiler. In this tutorial, you'll learn how you can analyze requests and responses using Facebook's Stetho debug tool. Stetho maps Picasso's network activity to Chrome's developer tool. This offers the network information during the development …

In a previous tutorial, you've learned how to enable logging in Picasso. Unfortunately, this logging option only gives you very limited information and nothing specific to CPU load, memory usage, or the network. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Android Studio's Profiler to really drill into details of …

Developer tools are a minefield. We’re so picky about the tools we use and require a high quality or don’t even consider them. You have an ingrained workflow if you’re like me, you behave like a robot when starting your programming. Update — February 28th 2018 The code …

When working with Picasso, at some point you'll run into the following scenario: Picasso shows the error placeholder and you can't figure out why. Even when you activate logging you'll only see that loading an image failed, but not the reason for the failure. In this tutorial, you'll learn how …

While running a website you’ll probably iterate on the design and functionality. Adding new pages is a good start to take a different path from your layout and apply new design ideas. At Future Studio, we’ve applied a different design to the galaxy map, compared to other pages. …

Developing your web app isn’t only about the happy path. You need to take care of proper error handling and that applies to more than just showing creative error messages for bad user inputs on forms. Update — February 28th 2018 The code samples of this tutorial are up to …

Actively maintained applications get started and stopped very often. It’s not like the operating system of your web server that doesn’t get touched for years once set up ;-) Especially during development, you’re usually starting a local instance of your app multiple times a day! Update — hapi …