Oracle wins appeal against Google in landmark copyright case The never ending legal battle between Oracle and Google took a new twist on Tuesday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington ruled that Google’s use of Java shortcuts to develop Android “went too far” and […]
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Returning the result of a long-running function at a later time is an important aspect of programming. A lot of high-level programming languages have the asynchronousity build in (e.g. C# with delegates) or it’s part of the language nature that it even leads to a callback hell (Node.js). Java/Android doesn’t […]
Gson is awesome in making conversion from JSON to Java classes easy for us developers. With a few lines of code, you can pass JSON and get fully-mapped Java objects back. However, one pain point of using Gson is setting up appropriate Java POJO classes. Creating a POJO class based […]
A lot of readers on our Retrofit series are just starting out with developing software or are new to Java/Android. We’re really happy to welcome all new developers! We’ve received many questions, which were caused by implementing apps with Retrofit, but not actually specific to Retrofit. Consequently, we decided to […]
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 […]
Every good software product follows some architecture and implementation patterns. In the past few decades, a lot of different ideas emerged. New and even experienced developers can still be overwhelmed by the amount of different patterns and when they should be applied. In this tutorial we’ll introduce you to two […]
Hi, all! Although there a lot of materials covering the background work in Android applications, the complete guide is always missing due to the pace the instruments for the Android applications are developed at. The goal of this series is to provide a detailed guide on principles, tools and approaches […]
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. To continue reading this premium tutorial go to futurestud.io! […]
https://www.flickr.com/photos/the-money-pit/5900474232 Kotlin opened up a new world for us. Developers write less code than before in Java world. And Kotlin’s interoperability with Java made it easy to incorporate it into existing and new apps, while still having the freedom of using our favourite Java libraries. However, as these libraries are […]
If you have a Java project, slowly converting to Kotlin, and have some interoperable code of Java and Kotlin, this would be important checks. The two items shared below has bitten us, as it won’t be caught by Compiler. Hopes you could be cautious of them. Java calls Kotlin code You have […]