What else is available?

Now, we will list some alternatives for Retrofit and Gson. Outside, there is a big open source community that makes great things every day. You are not obligated to use any libraries we present. You can choose any of the alternatives, or even create your own implementation!

Retrofit alternative

As its homepage says, Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android apps easier and, most importantly, faster. Some of the key features Volley offers are as follows:

• Automatic scheduling of network requests
• Multiple concurrent network connections
• Transparent disk and memory response caching with standard HTTP cache coherence
• Support for request prioritization.
• Cancellation request API
• Ease of customization...