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Mastering Android Development with Kotlin

You're reading from   Mastering Android Development with Kotlin Deep dive into the world of Android to create robust applications with Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473699
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Miloš Vasić Miloš Vasić
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Preface 1. Starting with Android FREE CHAPTER 2. Building and Running 3. Screens 4. Connecting Screen Flow 5. Look and Feel 6. Permissions 7. Working with Databases 8. Android Preferences 9. Concurrency in Android 10. Android Services 11. Messaging 12. Backend and API 13. Tuning Up for High Performance 14. Testing 15. Migration to Kotlin 16. Deploying Your Application

Executing our first API call

We defined a Retrofit service with all API calls, but we haven't connected anything to it yet. It is time to use it. We will extend our code to use Retrofit. Each API call can be executed synchronously or asynchronously. We will show you both ways. Do you remember that we set our Retrofit service base URL to the localhost? This means that we will need a local backend instance that will respond to our HTTP requests. Since backend implementation is not the subject of this book, we will leave it up to you to create a simple service responding to this request. You can implement it from any programming language you like, such as Kotlin, Java, Python, and PHP.

If you are impatient and don't want to implement your own application for dealing with HTTP requests, you can override the base URL, Notes, and TODOs paths as shown in the following example...

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