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.
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
Software Engineer
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.
Docs
Intro to the Android Apollo SDK
This tutorial demonstrates adding the Apollo Android SDK to an app to communicate with a GraphQL server.
Panel
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.
Talk
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.
Podcast
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.
Blog Post
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.
Blog post
Add GraphQL to Your Jetpack Compose Apps
Change log: Updated on 9/15/2022 to update to the latest Compose and Apollo Kotlin versions. Introduction Jetpack Compose is Android’s modern toolkit for building native UI. It simplifies and accelerates UI development on Android. Quickly bring your app to life with less code, powerful tools, and intuitive Kotlin APIs. Apollo Kotlin is a strongly-typed, caching […]