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The modern mobile world has seen a remarkable shift towards video content. With faster internet connections, higher-quality cameras on smartphones, and the rise of social media, videos have become the preferred medium for sharing stories and information. This trend is most evident in the domain of user-generated content (UGC). Applications…

In mobile development, delivering high-quality images on every device can be a challenge. With the variety of screen sizes and resolutions, developers need to serve the right image to the right device without compromising performance or user experience. The Cloudinary Android SDK’s responsive breakpoints feature makes it easier to…

As a Mobile Developer for Cloudinary, I hold, maintain, and build SDKs for new mobile frameworks (Flutter, React Native, etc.). I recently built a new sample app complementary to the SDK package that you can use and play with the Cloudinary SDK and solution. An overview of what you can…

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of our newest course at Cloudinary Academy: Introduction to Cloudinary’s Android SDK. Designed specifically for Android developers, this course delves into the optimization of image and video handling for Android applications. This marks a significant milestone as the inaugural mobile course in Cloudinary…

As computer users, we constantly upload files, transferring them from one system to another over a network. You can perform uploads on a terminal, such as through the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) or Secure Copy Protocol (SCP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP) clients, or web browsers. Generally, you upload files…

Adding code to display an image in your application is one of the most common tasks for almost every application developer. However, when it comes to Android applications, there is no inbuilt support for any image related tasks, which could be a potential pain when Android developers need to handle…

ExoPlayer, a media player for Android, was developed and is being maintained by Google as an alternative for Android’s default MediaPlayer. Among ExoPlayer’s advantages over MediaPlayer are dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH), smooth streaming, and common encryption. A major advantage, however, is ExoPlayer’s easy customization.

Among the image formats available today, Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) works for both static and animated images. A popular use of GIF images—commonly called GIFs—is to repeatedly loop motions, which you cannot in real life. Many people have turned themselves into online celebrities through effective application of GIFs. Cloudinary is…

Recently we added the Cloudinary Demo- e-commerce App to the Google Play Store. This app demonstrates the best practices for optimal delivery of images on a storefront, including category pages, product pages, and a shopping cart. At the time, we published Introducing the Cloudinary Demo Android App, Part 1,…