Moshi VS glide

Honestly, when you look at a build.gradle.kts written by someone who knows what they're doing, it's not that bad (that reminds me, I should really clean up the build.gradle.kts on my personal project, I haven't heavily edited it since I knew a lot less about gradle...). For example, here's the build.gradle.kts for Moshi, a JSON serialization library from Square. It uses the root build.gradle.kts for the project a bit, which is here. The root one is a little more complex, but that's mostly because it has to deal with a multi-release build and has to configure a few plugins, like dokka. (If you're wondering where all the library versions are, they're here, using a new feature in Gradle you might like: The version catalog)

Moshi

This approach is also used by square/moshi. You can also refer this.

Best practice in Android would be Moshi, which is written by many of the same authors as Gson but is still actively maintained. It's more or less a breaking upgrade from Gson.

Thanks for the info. Just checked the GitHub and it is indeed the case that Gson is not maintained anymore. The main dev left Google it seems and therefore abandoned Gson. He and some other people however created a new project called Moshi that's probably intended as a kind of Gson 3.0: https://github.com/square/moshi the last commit was three months ago and there are a crowd of contributors listed so I guess that's the better option than ye olde Gson.

Java annotations have enabled compile-time reflection since Java 1.6, and of course it has been used for serialization: https://github.com/square/moshi/#codegen

JSON de/serialization: Kotlin serialization, Moshi

However i am getting an error "Expected BEGIN-ARRAY but was BEGIN-OBJECT at $". Looking over the moshi documentation (https://github.com/square/moshi) I think I need to use an adapter as my JSON response starts with "{ }" not the expected "[ ]". I am just struggling to understand how to implement the adapter as I think the built in adapter should work.

Moshi users are currently blocked to update until Moshi 1.13.0 is released: https://github.com/square/moshi/issues/1368

Do you mean what I use to show the images? I am using the Glide library, you can find more information here: https://github.com/bumptech/glide

as mentioned in the other post i don't have too much insight in the art loading because its using https://github.com/bumptech/glide for all image loading. Resolution is the only thing i know for sure can prevent an imagine from successfully loading, whether or not that resolution is fixed or if its dependent on the device I have not been able to determine

Ah, yes, downloading images as a files works completely differently from displaying images and it doesn't use any cache. Though in theory you could rewrite downloading logic to use the same mechanism as display (which is Glide)

Glide

You can also take a look at Coil, Picasso or Glide which usually have some kind of crossfade animation when the image loads.

GitHub: https://github.com/bumptech/glide

Image loading: Glide, Picasso, Coil, Fresco

Shortly said, they use React generally with fast-image and Glide for better loading of images Hermes JS Engine for app optimization. The app itself seems to generally use Kotlin and a few Java libraries and they also implemented Sqlite but I'm not sure about the use case for it probably they use it for progress though (The Developer/Marketer needs to confirm this), lastly they seem to use IntellJ Idea for programming and probably compiling

If you see a file like this: https://github.com/bumptech/glide/blob/master/library/src/main/java/com/bumptech/glide/RequestBuilder.java tell me that your eyes don't immediately go to the comments first instead of the code.