Network Requests with Retrofit in Android

Learn how to set up your Android app to perform common network operations. This lesson will introduce the permissions, basic networking terms, and components to establish successful communication with an API.

Learn how Retrofit makes it easier to do networking operations compared to the standard HttpsUrlConnection. In this lesson, you’ll learn about different Retrofit components and how to integrate them into your Android app.

Learn how to make different types of HTTP requests with Retrofit. In this lesson, you’ll learn how Retrofit supports blocking and non-blocking requests, how to handle responses and how to deal with errors.

Learn how to perform serialization and deserialization of data with Moshi. You’ll also learn how Moshi and Retrofit work well together to make parsing API responses a breeze.

Learn how to use Kotlin Coroutines to make your networking code even easier. By replacing the standard Retrofit callbacks with suspending functions your code will become more readable and easier to grasp.

This lesson will teach how to introduce authentication in Retrofit. It’ll demonstrate the purpose of interceptors and logging in Retrofit.