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Hi everyone! Coming from an iOS background and writing an android version of one of the apps. What are the community recommendations for : Networking library, and keyboard managers (this is an issue in iOS as the keyboard can sometimes cover an input when the keyboard comes into view). Any more gotchas that you can think of? Much appreciated :slightly_smiling_face:. Should mention I’m interested in Kotlin libs (if important).

Retrofit for Rest, this comes with OkHttp, Gson or Moshi for json parsing

for keyboard handling, nothing special the sdk tool work just fine

When you say “or”, it comes with all three under the hood?

only comes with okhttp, then you can choose the parser you prefer

if you search for retrofit example, you will find everything you need to make network request for Rest api, if that is what you need

if you need too handle images then I recommend Glide

I thought Retrofit is JVM only. Ktor have OkHttp for JVM/Android and iOS (URLSession) one

<@U646TGYUB> is right, Retrofit is JVM only
&gt; “Type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java by Square, Inc.”
The counterpart from ktor is also available for iOS. It could help when you already have ios background. (<https://ktor.io/clients/http-client/engines.html>)
Perhaps you should also take a look into Kotlin Multiplatforms, where you can share code between ios and JVM applications if you plan to write for both platforms: <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/multiplatform.html>

~Gson~ -&gt; kotlinx.serialization or Moshi

Retrofit -&gt; or also <#C0A974TJ9|ktor> client

ktor &amp; kotlinx.serialization have the added  benefit of working with kotlin/native, if that becomes of interest in the future

I’m surprised no one has mentioned Fuel, as it was one of the first things that google returned.

Thanks ^^ was looking for specifically android actually :sweat_smile: my bad

Fuel is very interesting kotlin library with a lot of features including Android.