Room, Retrofit, OkHttp, offline-first patterns, and data management
HTTP request passes through OkHttp interceptors. This step-by-step guide covers the mental model (airport checkpoints), how interceptors work, applica...
Retrofit generates HTTP client code from annotated Kotlin interfaces. This step-by-step guide covers the mental model, DTOs with Gson/Moshi, the API i...
Your database schema will change — migrations handle it without losing data. Your data model has connections — relations handle them clean...
Room wraps SQLite with a type-safe, compile-time validated, Kotlin-native API. This step-by-step guide covers the mental model, Entity with @PrimaryKe...
SharedPreferences blocks the main thread, has no type safety, and silently fails. DataStore fixes everything with Flow, suspend functions, and typed k...