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What is Retrofit?

Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface
Retrofit is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.
Retrofit is an open source tool with 42.5K GitHub stars and 7.3K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Retrofit's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Retrofit?

Companies
69 companies reportedly use Retrofit in their tech stacks, including Robinhood, Square, and doubleSlash.

Developers
143 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Retrofit.

Retrofit Integrations

Retrofit's Features

  • URL parameter replacement and query parameter support
  • Object conversion to request body (e.g., JSON, protocol buffers)
  • Multipart request body and file upload

Retrofit Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Retrofit?
OkHttp
HTTP is the way modern applications network. It’s how we exchange data & media. Doing HTTP efficiently makes your stuff load faster and saves bandwidth.
Postman
It is the only complete API development environment, used by nearly five million developers and more than 100,000 companies worldwide.
Insomnia REST Client
Insomnia is a powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.
RestSharp
It is probably the most popular HTTP client library for .NET. Featuring automatic serialization and deserialization, request and response type detection, variety of authentications and other useful features
OpenAPI
It is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a proprietary software application or web service.
See all alternatives

Retrofit's Followers
197 developers follow Retrofit to keep up with related blogs and decisions.