Retrofit Implementation with Dagger2

This project is demonstration on Dagger2 (Dependency Injection) using Retrofit, DataBinding and RxJava to execute network request.

Retrofit is a REST Client library (Helper Library) used in Android and Java to create an HTTP request and also to process the HTTP response from a REST API. It was created by Square, you can also use retrofit to receive data structures other than JSON, for example SimpleXML and Jackson. Before we continue, let’s briefly define REST Client and REST API in our context.

REST Client in our case is the Retrofit library that is used on the client side (Android) to make HTTP request to REST API.

A REST API defines a set of functions which developers can perform requests and receive responses via HTTP protocol such as GET and POST.

Dagger is a fully static, compile-time dependency injection framework for both Java and Android. It is an adaptation of an earlier version created by Square and now maintained by Google.

RxJava is used to manage network request and response.

For more references :

• Retrofit - https://android.jlelse.eu/consuming-rest-api-using-retrofit-library-in-android-ed47aef01ecb
• Dagger2 - https://www.journaldev.com/16758/android-dependeny-injection-dagger
• RxJava - https://proandroiddev.com/exploring-rxjava-in-android-e52ed7ef32e2