CodingWithMitch - REST API with MVVM and Retrofit2

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:

1. Communicating with a webservice (rest api) using Retrofit2
2. MVVM Architecture: ViewModel, Repository, Client structure
3. How to design an architecture
4. Singletons
5. Custom Loading Animation ProgressBar in Recyclerview
6. ViewModels and AndroidViewModels
7. Multiple View Types in a Recyclerview
8. RecyclerView Pagination
9. Building Custom Toolbars
10. Customizing Toolbar Behaviors with CoordinatorLayout and AppBarLayout
11. Observables, LiveData, MutableLiveData and MediatorLiveData
12. Displaying Images using Glide
13. CardViews
14. SearchViews
15. Menus
16. Passing data between activities using intent extras
17. Executors and Background Threads
18. ThreadPools
19. Network Security Config for HTTP (API 28+)
20. And much more...

Architecture Diagram