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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Networking Introducing OkHttp

Posted by Shahraiz Tabassam
Shahraiz Tabassam
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Okhttp or Retrofit?

Since the videos don't come with a date, I'm not sure how recent they are but Square also has a library for interacting with RESTful APIs called Retrofit. How does that compare to this? Are the two, different things? I'm new to all this.

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Bryan Wiedeman
Bryan Wiedeman
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Bryan Wiedeman
Bryan Wiedeman
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retrofit has a lot more functionality than OKhttp, which is good, especially because it's specifically geared toward APIs and that's what we're using on this lesson, but it requires more learning than the couple of videos this course spends on networking. Luckily there's a whole course on retrofit if you want to learn that.

https://teamtreehouse.com/library/simplify-networking-with-retrofit