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ProGuard configuration for Retrofit

If you use ProGuard for obfuscating your code and happen to use Retrofit in your application, you will need to configure ProGuard to exclude certain Retrofit files from being obfuscated. Also you must note that if you are using GSON for conversion from JSON to POJO representation, you must ignore …

Book Review: Bulletproof Android: Practical Advice for Building Secure Apps

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I recently reviewed this title and found it short on a few important consideration such as cross client authorization. This is definitely a book for developers who are beginning android application development, but isn’t comprehensive.

I discuss about what each chapter covers and then offer suggestions later on how …

Retrofit custom JSON deserializer

Retrofit uses Google’s gson libraries to deserialize JSON representation to Java object representation. Although, this deserialization process works for most of the cases, sometimes you would have to override the deserialization process to parse a part of the response or because you don’t have any clear object representation …

Apache Chemistry and CMIS

In this post, I will explain how you can use apache chemistry API’s to query the enterprise content management systems. Apache Chemistry project provides client libraries for you to easily implement integration with any of the content management products that support or implement CMIS standard. As you might be …

Simply Read: A Rss/Atom Feed Reader for android

In the past few weeks, I had been working on an android application, for reading feed articles, there were quite a few takeaways from that experience and I am just sharing few of those, along with the link and features to the application.

The app can be downloaded from the …