GraphQL for Android

Consume your GraphQL API on Android Devices with Apollo Android. Apollo Android is a GraphQL client that generates type-safe Kotlin models from your GraphQL queries. It also handles parsing and caching so you can focus on what matters most to your users and build beautiful mobile apps.

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“This collection teaches you how to use Apollo Android to do GraphQL queries, mutations and subscription as well as tips & tricks to better handle GraphQL on mobile devices.

Martin Bonnin

Code	Apollo GraphQL Android Client Apollo Android is a GraphQL client that generates Java and Kotlin models from GraphQL queries. These models give you a type-safe API to work with GraphQL servers. Apollo helps you keep your GraphQL query statements together, organized, and easy to access. Frontend
Docs	Intro to the Android Apollo SDK This tutorial demonstrates adding the Apollo Android SDK to an app to communicate with a GraphQL server. Frontend, How-to
Panel	From the community Apollo-Android: a Journey to Kotlin Multiplatform In this talk we will be talking about the path we took to bring Kotlin Multiplatform support and the challenges we faced along the way. We will touch topics such as migrating code from Java to Kotlin Multiplatform for both the runtime and code generation, as well as documentation and publication of Multiplatform artifacts. Frontend
Talk	From the community Take Control Of Your APIs With GraphQL In this talk, we’ll introduce the benefits of a client side API and understand why this will be the approach of the future. You’ll learn what tools are available for consuming GraphQL APIs on Android, and tips for having them coexist with the REST APIs you already support. You’ll leave this talk with a clear roadmap on how you can begin migrating your apps to this new technology. Adam McNeilly
Podcast	From the community GraphQL and Apollo with GDE Mike Nakhimovich In this episode, we talk about GraphQL. Friend and GDE Mike Nakhimovich helped create the library Apollo for Android, which is the defacto official GraphQL client for Android. Mike Nakhimovich · Frontend
Blog Post	From the community Exploring GraphQL with Coroutines on Android In this post we’re going to look at setting up our project for use with GraphQL, along with learning how we can perform queries. Joe Birch · Frontend
Blog post	Add GraphQL to Your Jetpack Compose Apps Jetpack Compose is a declarative UI framework for building Android UIs written in Kotlin. Apollo Android is a GraphQL client that generates typesafe Kotlin models to hold data to be displayed. GraphQL and Jetpack Compose: they were meant to meet. In this post, we will show how to query a GraphQL endpoint with Apollo Android […] Martin Bonnin · Frontend, How-to

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