what you didn’t know about retrofit with kotlin
summary
Shows Retrofit as a configured stack not just an interface: Moshi converter with RFC3339 adapter for Kotlin data classes, an empty‑to‑null converter to handle zero‑byte responses, and OkHttp with a header interceptor for auth or analytics. Demonstrates using coroutines with suspend methods instead of Call enqueue, explains main‑safety and IO dispatchers, and inspects real requests in Android Studio network profiler using a blog API against jsonplaceholder.typicode.com so you see requests, headers, and failures end to end.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:17What is retrofit
- 3:54Objectives
- 5:28HTTP Client
- 7:06Network Issues
- 9:16Interface
- 10:49Issues
- 13:02Retrofit
- 14:12The power of retrofit
- 15:22What does retrofit do
- 16:21Retrofit is declarative
- 17:59Agenda
- 18:28What are data converters
- 21:47Customization
- 23:06Empty to Null Converter
- 25:27OK HTTP
- 26:10Header Interceptor
- 28:20Profiler
- 30:27Coroutines
- 33:36Enqueue
- 34:25COD routines
- 36:57Main Safety
- 40:46Questions
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