Welcome to the Wonderful World of GraphQL
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An introduction to GraphQL for Android covering basics, common pitfalls, and tooling. Discusses using GraphiQL for live queries and docs, Relay-style pagination with connections/edges/totalCount, awkwardness of file uploads and mutations versus REST, and an Apollo Android code-generation workflow that requires .graphql files to produce typed request/response classes. Advocates schema-driven development to share types and generate safe client models.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00GraphQL intro
- 1:55Schema-driven dev
- 5:47GraphQL features
- 8:44GitHub GraphQL examples
- 12:02Request/response structure
- 15:36Relay server spec
- 17:02Connections and pagination
- 20:22Query design guidelines
- 21:53GraphQL for Android
- 23:23Apollo Client on Android
- 25:59Relay with React Native
- 27:28Android data models
- 28:56REST vs GraphQL
- 30:29Summary
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