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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 2. Building and Running FREE CHAPTER 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

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...
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