Retrofit/Volley
Aalishan Ansari
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Web service calling the client for?Android apps
Moving forward in the world of digitalization every app needs to communicate with the server, It's you who choose the way to communicate to the server from your apps, It makes a lot of sense to use the proper gateway to communicate from the server. The user does not want to delay in response from the server or low performance of the app due to API calls.
Let's discuss the 2 most useful clients for API calls.
Retrofit
Retrofit?can be fit in any situation of API calls whether it is rest or soap it is an open-source lib from the square.
Retrofit?is a type-safe HTTP client that enables the communication between your app and API server, Retrofit turns your HTTP request into interfaces, It can have both synchronous and asynchronous calls of API.
Retrofit?is the class through which your API interfaces are turned into callable objects. By default, Retrofit will give you sane defaults for your platform but it allows for customization.
By default, Retrofit can only deserialize HTTP bodies into OkHttp’s?ResponseBodytype and it can only accept its?RequestBody?type for?@Body.
Some Advantages of Retrofit:
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Some Limitations of Retrofit:
Volley
Volley?is an?HTTP library?that makes networking very easy and fast, for Android apps. It was developed by Google and introduced during Google I/O 2013. It was developed because there is an absence in Android SDK, of a networking class capable of working without interfering with the user experience. Although Volley is a part of the Android Open Source Project(AOSP), Google announced in January 2017 that Volley will move to a standalone library. It manages the processing and caching of network requests and it saves developers valuable time from writing the same network call/cache code again and again.
Features
10. Provides image and JSON object, JSON array, and String request types.
Limitations of Volley
Conclusion
If we compare both so both are having advantages and disadvantages. If performance-wise both are almost the same so we can choose one of them, but in my perspective, I would go for Retrofit because it is easy to use and separation of code is easy in retrofit, We need to write less code in the retrofit.
Senior Android Developer
2 年Android fast networking
Senior Android Developer
2 年Retrofit
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2 年None of the above, i use ktor