http4k VS apollo-android

Compare http4k vs apollo-android and see what are their differences.

http4k

The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services. (by http4k)

apollo-android

:robot:  A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client for the JVM, Android, and Kotlin multiplatform. (by apollographql)
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http4k apollo-android
5 9
2,482 3,649
0.8% 1.0%
9.8 9.7
about 16 hours ago 7 days ago
Kotlin Kotlin
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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http4k

Posts with mentions or reviews of http4k. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-17.

apollo-android

Posts with mentions or reviews of apollo-android. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.
  • Migrating Netflix to GraphQL Safely
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2023
    GraphQL queries are just HTTP POST queries with a JSON body. They're supported everywhere.

    If you want specialized tooling for them, Kotlin and Swift both have great strongly-typed GraphQL libraries.

    Apollo publishes libraries for both:

    - https://www.apollographql.com/docs/kotlin/

    - https://www.apollographql.com/docs/ios/

  • How to build a Snowflake API?
    10 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2023
    An example of a Snowflake API request using Java. This example uses Java’s built-in HttpClient and constructs JSON manually, so it doesn’t require additional dependencies; however, in production, you should use a library like Jackson for constructing JSON. Additionally, for stronger typing, you could use Apollo’s Kotlin-based GraphQL client.
  • Flutter vs Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (not a holywar)
    4 projects | /r/FlutterDev | 24 Jan 2022
    - found Flutter graphql is way ahead , even almost mature as Apollo for JS. apollo-kotlin is several miles behind, a lot of issues, absolutely inconvenient usage after graphql-flutter
  • GraphQL - Diving Deep
    47 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    Apollo Client does have a good integration with these frameworks including React, iOS and Android — so, you might want to check that out
  • Any good java graphql client suggestions ?
    4 projects | /r/graphql | 7 Jul 2021
    Hi 👋Martin from https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-android here. Can you ellaborate more on "created schema files are not serialized" ? For Android app, I usually recommend separating the persistence layer and the network models so that they're not coupled. But maybe it's different from a microservice?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing http4k and apollo-android you can also consider the following projects:

ktor - Framework for quickly creating connected applications in Kotlin with minimal effort

javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]

voyager-server-spring-boot-starter - Easily create REST endpoints with permissions (access control level) and hooks includeded

GraphQL Kotlin - Libraries for running GraphQL in Kotlin

vertx-lang-kotlin - Vert.x for Kotlin

kotlinx.html - Kotlin DSL for HTML

kraph - GraphQL request string builder written in Kotlin

Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin

KGraphQL

hexagon - Hexagon is a microservices toolkit written in Kotlin. Its purpose is to ease the building of services (Web applications or APIs) that run inside a cloud platform.