Chapter 3: Displaying Data from REST APIs with Retrofit

In this chapter, we'll be taking a break from the Jetpack libraries and focusing on adding real data within our Restaurants application by using a very popular networking library on Android called Retrofit.

Retrofit is an HTTP client library that lets you create an HTTP client declaratively and abstracts most of the underlying complexity associated with handling network requests and responses. This library allows us to connect to a real web API and retrieve real data within our app.

In the Understanding how apps communicate with remote servers section, we will focus on exploring how mobile applications retrieve and send data to remote web APIs. In the Creating and populating your database with Firebase section, we will create a database for our Restaurants application with the help of Firebase and fill it with JSON content.

In the Exploring Retrofit as an HTTP networking client for Android section, we will learn...