Retrofit – Handling Different Responses

[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] In my previous post I provided a simple example of how to use Retrofit to define, create and use a REST API client. Even in that simple example the issue of how to deal with different responses to a request came up. That is, where the response we receive does not conform to the strongly typed response we expected (or hoped for). Here’s how we deal with that, in a strongly typed way.

Using Retrofit with Oxygene

[Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes] I’ve recently been working on a new project involving an Azure hosted ASP.NET MVC WebApi application (actually a pair of them) and native mobile and web applications. Everything is – of course – built using Oxygene. For the Android mobile app I was looking for a REST API client library and have settled upon Retrofit and thought I would share the experience.