One of the most commonly asked questions in our email inboxes and comment sections is about API requests not working. The request works on another client (iOS app, Postman tool, …), but not with Retrofit on Android. Our usual suggestion is to add logging via OkHttp interceptor or via Stetho and …

At some point you want to expand your platform from browsers to other clients. This could be native apps for Android and iOS. Or you want to shift gears and level up your web frontend with a client-side framework that communicates via JSON data instead of HTML. This is the …

In the past tutorials, you've learned the basics of Retrofit call adapters, how to integrate RxJava 1.x interfaces and RxJava 2.x interfaces to your Retrofit callbacks. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Retrofit's request callbacks into your Guava flow. {{outline}} Integration of Retrofit Callbacks into Your …

Every app needs some kind of search. Serving content comes with the need to make it visible and what fits better than a full-text search. Because Futureflix uses MongoDB as its data store, you’ll implement a full-text search on top of it. Starting in version 3.2, MongoDB ships …

One frustrating element of our work life as Android developers is that we're often dependent of APIs. APIs can be unfinished, broken, or just slow, which all stall app development. It can be frustrating if we're trying to polish some UI elements, but cannot finish the work because of an …

You’ve limited time to spend on watching movies and TV shows. You can’t watch everything at once. A watchlist is a space to save movies and shows for later. Once you finished the current show (or movie), pick the next one from your watchlist. If you’re like …

In the past weeks, you read an introduction to Retrofit call adapters and how to integrate various first-party call adapters (RxJava 1.x, RxJava 2.x, Guava). In another tutorial, you've learned how to implement a custom call adapter. In that tutorial, you implemented a custom call adapter, which separates …

Pagination is an essential part of web applications to split large data sets into chunks. Pagination is like the penguins in the Madagascar movie: a secret star. You couldn’t live with it while having a minor role in the play. With growing data sets in your Futureflix app, you …