Retrofit with RxJava and Gson

To get started you need to include the following in your build.gradle file:

Now you can set up your API interface with RxJava Observables, for example:

As you can see above, I can use my own data model and the JSON response will be converted automatically. I can also simply get a JsonObject if I just want to use the JSON myself.

Alternatively, I can set up my own deserializer, like so:

Lastly, here is my API creation with a deserializer for the User added in:

There are many different ways you can use Retrofit, RxJava, and Gson. This example can be used as a starting point, but there is much more you can do with each of these libraries if you need to.

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Originally published at piercezaifman.com on June 10, 2017.