It official now! Retrofit 2.6.0 has been released with support for suspend functions. This allows you to express the asynchrony of HTTP requests in an idiomatic fashion for the Kotlin language. Behind the scenes this behaves as if defined as fun user(...): Call<User> and then invoked with Call.enqueue. You can…

Google I/O brought various interesting things for Android Developers: there’s the cutting edge JetPack Compose, the new F̶l̶u̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶K̶o̶t̶l̶i̶n̶ declarative toolkit to build UI using composable Widgets, but it’s still in early early stage of development and it’s not intended for production use in the short term. Something that’s…

GeoJson is a relatively new open standard format (GeoJSON as RFC 7946 were released in August 2016) designed to represent simple geographical features. It’s simple, human-readable and based on JSON. Working with GeoJson layers is extremely simple, you can even use an online editor to create, edit and download new…

After a few months of developer preview, this week Google officially released Android 7.1. Factory images are in fact already available for the most recent Nexus phones and, of course, Pixels. One of the key features of Android 7.1 are App Shortcuts, a new way of interacting with apps directly…

At I/O 2016, Google turned Firebase into an unified mobile platform and migrated to it some existing services service like Google Cloud Platform, adding some new interesting features.

With Android Support Library 23.2, Google announced support for Bottom Sheets. According to Material Design, Bottom Sheets are elements displayed only as a result of a user-initiated action, used to reveal more content. They can be modal and slide from the bottom or persistent, when they’re integrated with the app…

In my previous posts I’ve explained how to export/import a Realm database from your app and how to eventually backup it on Google Drive. If you’ve read the latter in particular, you’ll know we created a simple activity that used Drive’s Picker to pick a destination folder for the backup…

Last week we’ve seen how to backup and restore a local instance of a Realm Database. Now let’s try to do more using the same code base, like upload our database to Google Drive. There’re 2 ways to integrate your app with Google Drive on Android: Using the REST API; …

One feature Glucosio users asked the most was complete database backup/restore. As you may already know, we’re using Realm to power our mobile database. Realm is a replacement for SQLite & ORMs One month ago, the Realm team released a very useful library for iOS projects called Realm Cocoa Converter…