stream-chat-android VS Retrofit

So that's the implementation we ended up with for now! You can find all of this code in the Chat Android SDK's GitHub repository if you want to look at it in a real project.

Check out Stream on Github. They have a few chat SDKs for iOS, Android, React and a few others. Website: https://getstream.io/

afterEvaluate { publishing { publications { release(MavenPublication) { // The coordinates of the library, being set from variables that // we'll set up later groupId PUBLISH_GROUP_ID artifactId PUBLISH_ARTIFACT_ID version PUBLISH_VERSION // Two artifacts, the `aar` (or `jar`) and the sources if (project.plugins.findPlugin("com.android.library")) { from components.release } else { artifact("$buildDir/libs/${project.getName()}-${version}.jar") } artifact androidSourcesJar artifact javadocJar // Mostly self-explanatory metadata pom { name = PUBLISH_ARTIFACT_ID description = 'Stream Chat official Android SDK' url = 'https://github.com/getstream/stream-chat-android' licenses { license { name = 'Stream License' url = 'https://github.com/GetStream/stream-chat-android/blob/main/LICENSE' } } developers { developer { id = 'zsmb13' name = 'Márton Braun' email = '[email protected]' } // Add all other devs here... } // Version control info - if you're using GitHub, follow the // format as seen here scm { connection = 'scm:git:github.com/getstream/stream-chat-android.git' developerConnection = 'scm:git:ssh://github.com/getstream/stream-chat-android.git' url = 'https://github.com/getstream/stream-chat-android/tree/main' } } } } } }

We’ll use our very own Android Chat SDK in our examples. This SDK is made up of multiple artifacts, but for simplification, we’ll just talk about publishing the low-level networking client, which lives in the stream-chat-android-client module of the GitHub repository.

We already ship a UI Components library in our Chat SDK which contains ready-to-go, fully-featured Android Views to drop into your app, along with ViewModels that let you connect them to business logic in just a single line of code. You can check out how that works in our Android Chat Tutorial.

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.

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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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

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

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.

I'm going to hit you with a "it depends" though whether to use ktor or retrofit. If there is any part of you that thinks you're going to support multiplatform, then ktor with no discussion. Retrofit has come out and said that's not on their road map. There is another option called ktorfit which from the name you can guess is like retrofit but built on top of ktor to support multiplatform.

Retrofit

I had a decent experience with Retrofit in the past, but that was a couple of years ago, idk if there are better tools now.