This is a short one, because there’s only one thing you need to do to make a Retrofit call to work with coroutines. @GET(“/”) suspend fun getQuote(): QuoteResponse Add the suspend keyword and you’re sorted. Call it from other suspend functions and you’re done. That’s… Read More »Using Retrofit with Coroutines (Oversimplified)
Retrofit is the undisputed best way to consume APIs in Android. As for handling async tasks and callbacks, you’re most probably almost definitely using RxJava or Coroutines. Probably both. So if you do need to use RxJava and Retrofit, here’s how to do it. No… Read More »Using Retrofit with RxJava
A couple weeks ago, I made a post on Gson vs Jackson vs Moshi by comparing them on a more general sense of view with performance being only one of the 3 criteria. In that section, comparing their performances, I decided to use 3 other… Read More »Benchmarking Gson vs Jackson vs Moshi 2020
Before the Kotlin era of Android, the development ecosystem was completely different. Not only with the overhaul of a new fresher language to build for the platform with, but with ever evolving libraries as well, some of which have become mainstream in recent years. If… Read More »Android Developer 2020 Skillset – What you need to know to get any job / Android Trends
Consider yourself lucky if you have an API that gives you all the data you want in your app and nothing else. Unfortunately, that’s rarely ever the case. Chances are, you deal with API responses that’s filled with 80% data you don’t need (or even… Read More »Parsing Complex Api Structures with Deserializers on Android
If you’re feeling lazy, there’s a TLDR at the bottom. It’s a situation we’re all familiar with. We write one feature, it’s working finely. We write another feature, the other one breaks. Often times, we don’t even know it until our users start complaining about… Read More »Unit Testing Android with RxJava and Retrofit
Retrofit has become a very familiar name in the Android ecosystem for a very useful library. One that turns your HTTP API into a Java (or Kotlin) interface. In layman’s terms, it makes loading APIs into POJOs ridiculously simple and we’re going to be following… Read More »Ridiculously Simple Guide to Getting Started with Retrofit