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Make life easier: Retrofit

Before we begin. When creating mobile apps you have many decisions to make that will have strong influence on final project’s shape. One of them is choosing the right libraries. Currently, it is hard to imagine mobile app that doesn’t communicate with network services. Weather apps download weather forecasts from servers, sport & fitness apps store our training data, social apps let us communicate with other users – these are only few examples.

Android and Magento Soap API – part IV

How to get list of products Magento SOAP API contains catalogProductList method for downloading list of products. Basically it returns ALL products at once. In production environment it could mean thousands of products returned in single API call. Mobile devices are not capable of handling such big response.

Material Design - Flexible Space Header with Image

Material design proposed interesting animation features, that can be seen throughout it’s design guidelines. One of these features is called Flexible Space Header, and today we’re going to take a closer look on how to implement it.

SDForms – an Objective-C library to create dynamic UITableView-based forms

SDForms is an Objective-C library that makes creating table view-based forms easier and faster on iOS. It was developed as a side effect of one of our project and it implements all the code responsible for managing table view cells, their sizes, dynamic number of rows etc. The core of the library is the SDForm class.

How to dynamicaly change Android Toolbar icons color

With the new Palette library and Material design, we’re able to create more color-aware applications, implementing color adaptable user interfaces. TL;DR There’s a link to the ColorizeToolbarHelper class at the end of the article. It works out of the box.