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I want to load data from my API into custom gridview in my android application, my API return some text information and some image URL as JsonArray. I want to use retrofit and otto and picasso (for loading image), also I want asynchronous fetching.
The problem is I can't understand how to use this libraries together (also I can't understand Asynchronous implementation of retrofit). can you offer me some tutorial or example that I can understand the scenario ?
P.S: I read this post and wiki of this libraries, but can't understand well.
please give me some full tutorial or example. thanks in advance.
This is a good article and good introduction to retrofit, however his implementation is strange and works though.
You'll find a good example on how to use retrofit and otto on this repo: Flickr client
The API client using retrofit is in the async folder, please take time to understand, I remember it gave me a good hand with retrofit.
About Picasso you can see that later, this is gonna be handled later in your activity (or fragment) which has been register to the Otto bus. Picasso is just one line of code, you'll have more to do before with Retrofit and Otto :)
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I quite new in Android developing platform (I'm frontender who has been using jQuery and now Angular2 (for 5 months) with RxJs ).
I used to code in core-Java in past for one year (6 years ago), so I'm little familiar with Java.
As I'm familiar with consuming REST API by using jQuery/Angular2 (which is really easy thing) I was wondering if there is any Android-framework to do that, or my only option is Retrofit, because I found it tangled to use.
Retrofit is your best choice if you want a direct mapping between api endpoints and Java Objects. You simply create DTOs and annotate each field with the corresponding json name.
Depending on the size and purpose of the api you may want to have a deeper control over what you send and receive, i.e. direct access to Request and Response objects. in this case, I recommend Volley library :-)
1) Retrofit use for best way coz its internally used OK HTTP .
2) Volley Used but retrofit is much better .
3) Client -server communication purpose made own HTTP Code .
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I presently use volley for network calls.
But, Google doesn't seem to be actively maintaining volley.
I heard that google initially developed volley to use it for its play store app but they haven't mentioned it in their list of 3rd party libraries used.
Almost everyone uses Retrofit(looking at the benchmarks, Retrofit seems better option), is it time to quit using volley?
p.s: please don't post the pros and cons of volley and retrofit
Google doesn't seem to be actively maintaining volley
That depends entirely on how you define "actively maintaining". Development is ongoing, as you can see by looking at the Volley git repo, which shows many commits over the past year (as of the time of this writing).
Google also shipped an official Volley artifact earlier this year, as version 1.0.0.
but they haven't mentioned it in their list of 3rd party libraries used
Google wrote the Play Store app. Google wrote Volley. Hence, from Google's standpoint, Volley is not a third-party library. For anyone other than Google, Volley is a third-party library.
Almost everyone uses Retrofit
Retrofit is not equivalent to Volley. The triad of Square HTTP libraries (OkHttp3, Retrofit, Picasso) would be equivalent to Volley, and that combination exceeds Volley's capabilities.
Based on questions here at Stack Overflow, I do not believe that "almost everyone uses Retrofit".
is it time to quit using volley?
Nobody can answer that other than you. You are the one with decision criteria of importance to you. You are the one who needs to evaluate which libraries meet those criteria.
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as I've already noticed: more and more developers use RxJava for Android development.
I want to learn it. Can you recommended some Project use RxJava?
I'm pretty sure that visiting Fragmented podcast parts about RxJava (I linked them below) would be a nice start of your RxJava Development:
The RxJava show with Dan Lew (Part 1)
The RxJava show with Dan Lew (Part 2)
Jake Wharton on Testing, SqlBrite, NotRxAndroid, RxJava and Much More
Why these sites? Click on the first link and you would find there not only a player as on normal podcast page, but also many recommended by authors resources which are also explained in podcast.
Many projects with RxJava you would find on GitHub. I would recommend you these:
https://github.com/kaushikgopal/RxJava-Android-Samples
https://github.com/jhusain/learnrxjava
https://github.com/richardradics/RxAndroidBootstrap
Also take a look at GitHub page of RxJava and RxAndroid, Android specific bindings for RxJava.
Any question? Please free to ask.
Hope it helps
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After going through the ways of calling web service calls in android.It's not recommended to use AsyncTask because of issues like device configuration change.
And Loaders are mainly used for interacting with database and Services mostly for long running operations.
Many answers says, to use libraries like Volley or Robospice or Retrofit.
What would be the most efficient one among them?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I came across different approaches in the past years and applied some of them in the real apps and some of them in some simple proof of concepts.
Here's my opinion:
The best option for communication with web services in Android is Retrofit + RxJava
Retrofit is compatible with RxJava. With such approach, you have clean and simple interface, you are able to handle errors and manipulate HTTP responses as Observable streams thanks to RxJava. Such approach is becoming good practice and standard for Android applications right now.
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I am in the process of porting my iOS app to Android, and am now in need of a simple to use asynchronous class set to download JSON data and images.
For iOS I am using AFNetworking which is an amazing tool. Is there anything like that for Android?
There's loop j's async http lib for Android (though I'm not a huge fan) http://loopj.com/android-async-http/. Honestly, best thing is just to use apache httpclient inside of an intentservice so it's async and then deliver the results to your activities, etc through a ResultReceiver.
UPDATE
I now recommend Retrofit, an open-source project from Square. I use it and it works very well as a REST client. http://square.github.io/retrofit/
You could try RoboSpice. Give us feedback, if it was, what you needed.
Another good option could be Volley, networking library introduced on IO 2013 by Google. For more info check this topic: Volley Android Networking Library
This lib is awesome. i think is all you want give a try dude
https://code.google.com/p/android-query/wiki/AsyncAPI