Retrofit VS Android Volley

Compare Retrofit vs Android Volley and see what are their differences.

Retrofit

A type-safe HTTP client for Android and the JVM (by square)
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Retrofit Android Volley
47 2
42,550 3,360
0.4% 0.3%
9.0 3.9
1 day ago 4 months ago
HTML Java
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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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 2024-01-23.

Android Volley

Posts with mentions or reviews of Android Volley. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-07.
  • Android Networking with Volley
    2 projects | dev.to | 7 Dec 2022
    Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android apps easier and most importantly, faster. It is available on GitHub.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Retrofit and Android Volley 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.

Async Http Client - Asynchronous Http and WebSocket Client library for Java

unirest-java - Unirest in Java: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.

Jersey - Eclipse Jersey Project - Read our Wiki:

android-async-http - An asynchronous, callback-based Http client for Android built on top of Apache's HttpClient libraries.

RESTEasy - An Implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification

Dropwizard - A damn simple library for building production-ready RESTful web services.

AndroidNetworking - 🚀 A Complete Fast Android Networking Library that also supports HTTP/2 🚀

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