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In this lesson, you learned:
- How Retrofit simplifies networking code compared to using
HttpUrlConnection. - How to add Retrofit to your project.
- How to incorporate Retrofit in an Android app.
- What components you need to build a Retrofit instance.
This lesson provides a good foundation to build on. In the upcoming lessons, you’ll make API requests with Retrofit, and you’ll learn about additional components that can be very helpful.
Ktor — a Viable Alternative
Ktor is a framework for building server-side and client-side apps. It’s developed by JetBrains. You can use Ktor on Android to consume APIs as an alternative to Retrofit. This can be helpful if you’re working on a Kotlin Multiplatform app where you can’t use Retrofit because it’s a Java library.