Android Networking

You will learn about working with REST APIs to transfer data over a network, including making basic connections and also using the popular Retrofit library. By Joe Howard.

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Part 1: Networking Basics

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Find out what's covered in our Android Networking video tutorial series: HTTP basics, HttpUrlConnection, and using the Retrofit library from Square.

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Download the starter app, build it in Android Studio, and review the existing app code. Review the use of ViewModel, LiveData, and the Repository pattern.

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Learn about basic concepts of HTTP requests, JSON, using REST APIs and consuming responses, and use the Postman REST client to investigate the GitHub API.

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See how to check for network connectivity from the starter app, and setup network state access permissions.

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Use the HttpUrlConnection class, along with an AsyncTask, to query the GitHub repos API for any GitHub user.

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Practice what you've learned so far to query the GitHub API and retrieve a list of code gists for any GitHub user.

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Learn how to parse the structured HTTP data responses from a REST API using JSONObject and JSONArray.

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Practice what you've learned about parsing JSON responses to parse the code gists JSON data for any GitHub user.

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Practice all that you've learned about making HTTP connections and parsing JSON data to retrieve and display a GitHub user's profile information.

Conclusion 0:53
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Let's review what you've covered on networking basics in this first part of Android Networking, and then discuss what's next.

Part 2: Getting Started with RetroFit

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We'll review the various issues with making HTTP connections from Android, then see a preview of how the Retrofit library from Square can help.

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Learn about how to setup the Retrofit library and Gson parsing library as dependencies for your Android project.

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See how to make a basic GET request using Retrofit, and also see how to use the Android Profiler to monitor network requests.

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Practice what you've learned about making GET requests with Retrofit to retrieve a GitHub user's gists and profile.

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Use the Gson parsing library from Google to automatically parse the response data from Retrofit requests into Kotlin instances.

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Practice what you've learned about Gson and Retrofit to show the user profile data obtained from GitHub.

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Setup an HttpLoggingInterceptor for an OkHttp client and use the client with your Retrofit instance.

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See how to handle errors that occur when making API requests with Retrofit by creating an Either class that can represent both success and error.

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Practice what you've learned about error handling to handle errors that occur when making requests for GitHub repos and gists.

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Let's review what you've covered about getting started with Retrofit in this second part of Android Networking, and then discuss what's next.

Part 3: More with RetroFit

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Survey other capabilities of the Retrofit library, and preview the network requests that will be seen in this part of the course.

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Learn how to authenticate into a GitHub user's account by retrieving an OAuth2 token from the GitHub API.

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Use an interceptor to add the OAuth2 token into requests made by Retrofit, and then make POST requests to add a new gist into the user's GitHub account.

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Practice what you've learned about making POST requests to send more data back when creating a new gist for the authenticated GitHub user.

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Learn how to make a DELETE request with Retrofit and then add the ability to delete gists for the authenticated GitHub user.

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Practice all that you've learned about Retrofit to send an update request for profile data for the authenticated GitHub user.

Conclusion 1:45
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In this final episode, we'll summarize both this last part and the whole course, and then see an overview of Android networking topics that were not covered.