Two weeks ago, you’ve seen how to log requests and responses for debugging purposes. Requests might not finish successfully and you have to take care of failure situations. Most of the time, you need to manually apply the correct action like showing an error message as user feedback. If …

Hawk authentication is sort of the underdog in the class of authentication types. It’s been officially around since November 2012 when Eran Hammer (aka hueniverse) published the first version. Since than, the HTTP authentication scheme has evolved to its current version 6.x. This tutorial guides you through the …

Retrofit 1 integrated a log feature for basic request and response debugging. The logging functionality was removed in Retrofit 2, since the required HTTP layer is now completely based on OkHttp. Since many developers asked for logging capabilities in Retrofit 2, the developers of OkHttp added a logging interceptor in …

The previous tutorials guided you through various use cases of Retrofit and showed you opportunities to enhance the app with Retrofit’s built-in functionality. This tutorial will show you how to upload a file to a backend server using the second major release of Retrofit, namely Retrofit 2. {{outline}} {{video} …

Retrofit is a great HTTP client for Android (and Java) and the second major release will be available by the end of 2015. We already published an extensive series on Retrofit in the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015. Due to the popularity of this series, we decided to …

The first Retrofit blog post was published on December 1st back in 2014. Within the following weeks after the initial release, we published 13 additional articles within the series of Retrofit posts. Since then, thousands have visited the articles and could solve various problems easily. We’re truly overwhelmed about …

This is the end … just kidding! This is just the temporary end of our Retrofit series. Of course not the end of Future Studio! We hope you learned a lot and got tons of value throughout the series of articles. We want to conclude with an overview and short recap …

This is the last post in our Retrofit series. File upload functionality is often required for mobile apps. Before we start, let’s have an overview of the previously released posts. {{outline}} Introduction Most Android apps need some kind of upload functionality where you want to send your profile picture …