Retrofit VS Lottie for Android, iOS, and React Native

from this point on, I will assume, you have a basic understanding of Retrofit. To get the most out of this tutorial I would actually suggest you have a retrofit client already implemented in your application.

Now you might think that in order to make the request we are going to use Retrofit but in reality we are going to be sending out an implicit intent like so:

This particular blog post will be us building on the information from the previous blog post and using the authorization code from the GitHub OAuth API in combination with Retrofit. To finally get a access token, which allows us to make requests to the API on a behalf of a user.

Hey HN!

If you're a fan of Swift you may have noticed that with WWDC 2023 came the (beta) release of macros. They're super powerful and expressive!

I've been wishing Swift had a [Retrofit](https://square.github.io/retrofit/) style API definition library for years, and with macros it seemed like this was now possible.

I'd like to show you all Papyrus, a library that turns your APIs into type-safe Swift protocols.

Would love to get your feedback.

https://github.com/joshuawright11/papyrus

When it comes to consuming APIs I can definitely recommend Retrofit. Hopefully that's enough to get you started on where to look!

For Android you should use a more mobile friendly framework like Retrofit or if you use Kotlin you can use the multi-platform Ktor library with it's client module

for example https://square.github.io/retrofit/ have mentioned it in at the bottom. Similarly there maybe other rules for other dependencies. Usually I search the missing classes error in google and find some proguard rule for it.

Retrofit in combination with OkHttp for fetching data from server (which hopefully already exists)

The first get request is to retrieve a list of objects and the second one is to get a single one. You can read more about RetroFit here.

So I've been playing around with search.maven.org and perhaps I'm not quite understanding it. For example, if I look for Retrofit I'm not seeing anything that resembles retrofit above https://central.sonatype.dev/search?q=Retrofit.

Worth mentioning that After Effects can export CSS/SVG/canvas animations with the free bodymovin/Lottie plugin. This is my personal go to for creating web key frame animations and elements.

Not every after effects feature is exportable, but it’s the best and most reliable solution I’ve found for this type of workflow, maybe due in part though to my previous experience with AE.

Currently supported features: http://airbnb.io/lottie/#/supported-features

A smooth and visually appealing on-boarding experience can greatly impact how users perceive the quality of your app. In my previous article, we explored how to create custom splash screens on Fire TV apps to optimize the startup time and improve user experience. Building on that knowledge we will take a step further and learn how to develop an animated splash screen using Lottie for Fire TV applications.

They are most likely Lottie animations: http://airbnb.io/lottie/

I'd suggest Lottie with a JSON animation file

We was thinking of https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-android

But he did have a commit 3 weeks ago https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-android/commit/7479ebb2847365e5ed0575249a9b639d86808dfa

Lottie[1], an Adobe After Effects plugin, fills a gap in vector animation authoring and is quite widely used (primarily in mobile applications but also works on the web, Discord for example supports them for stickers).

It's a pity SVG animation authoring tools never eventuated since it's an underutilized native format.

[1] (ignore the GIF-converted examples, the originals are lightweight and vector-based) https://airbnb.io/lottie/

Unity can export to WebGL/WASM, so that's one option if you're making some kind of heavy interactive experience and you don't mind waiting for it to load. For just animations there are tools like Lottie that can help. I think things are generally a lot more fragmented than they were in the Flash/Shockwave days though.

6. Lottie