REST API with MVVM and Retrofit2-0daytown

Description

In this course you’ll learn how to interact with a REST API from Food2Fork.com recipesapi.herokuapp.com. The app will retrieve information from the website and display it in various view types.

The app used to retrieve the data from Food2Fork.com, but that website has been shutdown. A codingwithmitch.com community member stripped the data and published to the Heroku app listed above. Special thanks to Simran doing this!

NOTE: This course is meant to serve as an introduction to the Local Database Caching Course with MVVM, Retrofit and Room. It’s strongly suggested that you watch that course after this one.

Here’s the specifics of what you will see in the course:

Communicating with a webservice (rest api) using Retrofit2
MVVM Architecture: ViewModel, Repository, Client structure
How to design an architecture
Singletons
Custom Loading Animation ProgressBar in Recyclerview
ViewModels and AndroidViewModels
Multiple View Types in a Recyclerview
RecyclerView Pagination
Building Custom Toolbars
Customizing Toolbar Behaviors with CoordinatorLayout and AppBarLayout
Observables, LiveData, MutableLiveData and MediatorLiveData
Displaying Images using Glide
CardViews
SearchViews
Menus
Passing data between activities using intent extras
Executors and Background Threads
ThreadPools
Network Security Config for HTTP (API 28+)
And much more…