Retrofit VS Realm

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.

Presumably realm in Element for Android. https://realm.io/ "Realm by MongoDB"

See also https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/1025

Looks really cool, I like to make very minimalistic dependency choices for the web apps I work on. Web Components look interesting and it's great to see frameworks that build upon it and provide features that are currently missing from it.

When I landed on the page I remembered another Realm framework I used a lot long time ago. https://realm.io has the same name and the logo looks very similar too. Not sure if it's a problem, just wanted to share. :)

Realm (Open Source but Sync is SaaS)

Realm is a fast, scalable alternative to SQLite with mobile to cloud data sync that makes building real-time, reactive mobile apps easy.

I would focus on Kotlin instead of Java, there's really no point in sticking to Java at this point. And when it comes to databases, some local ones that are pretty easy to get into are Realm and ObjectBox, SQLite can definitely be a bit overwhelming at the beginning.

So yeah, if you don't have a server with API which will store data for you - you should really look into CoreData and Realm

Try Realm.

Just to add to this, there's also Realm and ObjectBox as alternatives.

There is some crossover between the BaaS of Firebase and what MongoDB Atlas is offering if you are developing using Atlas Sync and Realm. Even so, there is a whole lot more you can find in terms of tutorials and community support for Firebase so it is hard to know how many of the Mongo claims are just future bugs for your project vs what people are currently doing with Firebase.