Retrofit
A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM (by square)
unirest-java
Unirest in Java: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library. (by Kong)
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| 53 | 3 | |
| 43,893 | 2,698 | |
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| 9.5 | 8.9 | |
| 5 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| HTML | Java | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Retrofit
Posts with mentions or reviews of Retrofit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-12-30.
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ProGuard Android Guide - Code Shrinking and Obfuscation
Retrofit ProGuard Rules
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Retrofit HTTP Client Guide for Android
Retrofit Documentation
- 안드로이드 개발자가 빠르게 적용할 수 있는 Flutter 프로젝트 구성
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Energy-Efficient Schema-Driven Development with Spring WebMVC/WebFlux
At first, I thought it was just a knockoff of Retrofit (sorry...), but it turns out you can also use it as a controller interface. The *Exchange annotations in the earlier example come from this HTTP Interface.
- 2025년에 안드로이드 앱을 만들기
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Using Retrofit Interceptors to check network connection in Android and testing it
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.
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Lets make a Twitch Android app. Part 1. App access tokens
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:
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Using OAuth2.0 and Retrofit to talk to the GitHub api on Android
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.
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Show HN: Turn Your APIs into Swift Protocols
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
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Looking for android java developer mentor
When it comes to consuming APIs I can definitely recommend Retrofit. Hopefully that's enough to get you started on where to look!
unirest-java
Posts with mentions or reviews of unirest-java.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
- there is some course that you recommend about the UNIREST? with java maven
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I am trying to look at Dup API in Java and figure out how to add users. but I don't know where to start from this thing is extremely new to me. I have read the documentation but still I am clueless. Where should I start from? Can anyone please guide?
You can send the HTTP request with the base Java HTTP API or use something like Unirest: http://kong.github.io/unirest-java/
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Can I use an HTTP Client library (Unirest) in a Spring Boot project
After not using Java or Spring Boot for development for a while I've kind of forgotten about most of it. I have an internal interview for a project tomorrow in which I need to know about Unirest but until now I haven't heard of any HTTP client libraries in Java because I never needed to use one. I'm learning about it right now and I can follow a tutorial and figure it out. However I'm confused as to why I haven't needed or heard of it before.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Retrofit and unirest-java you can also consider the following projects:
Feign - Feign makes writing java http clients easier
OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.
Armeria - Your go-to microservice framework for any situation, from the creator of Netty et al. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard.
Android Volley
Google HTTP Client - Google HTTP Client Library for Java