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Description

Type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java by Square, Inc.

For more information please see the website.

Code Quality Rank: L1
Programming language: Java
Tags: REST Frameworks    
Latest version: v2.6.1

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README

Retrofit

Type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java by Square, Inc.

For more information please see the website.

Download

Download the latest JAR or grab from Maven central at the coordinates com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.6.1.

Snapshots of the development version are available in Sonatype's snapshots repository.

Retrofit requires at minimum Java 8+ or Android API 21+.

R8 / ProGuard

If you are using R8 the shrinking and obfuscation rules are included automatically.

ProGuard users must manually add the options from this file. (Note: You might also need rules for OkHttp and Okio which are dependencies of this library)

License

Copyright 2013 Square, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.


*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Retrofit README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.