Can someone explain to me how is this different fr...
# kotlinx-rpcu
ursus
05/29/2024, 8:03 PMCan someone explain to me how is this different from say retrofit?
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Alexander Sysoev
05/31/2024, 10:10 AMHi!
I'm not too familiar with all Retrofit features, but from what I know there are 3 main differences:
• Retrofit is HTTP only, while kotlinx.rpc is protocol agnostic
• Retrofit is JVM only, kotlinx.rpc supports KMP
• Retrofit uses it's own network engine for parsing requests, while kotlinx.rpc delegates data transportation to a selected library/framework, for example, to Ktor. So that way you can add kotlinx.rpc to your existing Ktor applications with little to no effort
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ursus
05/31/2024, 11:03 AMoh is not over http, gotcha, thanks!