Retrofit specialists for your dedicated team.

Where Retrofit fits in a long-term product team.

Declaring the API as an interface makes the contract visible in one file. Endpoints, parameters and response types are declared up front, so an API change surfaces as a compile error in a known place instead of a parsing failure at runtime.

Most of the operational behaviour comes from OkHttp underneath: connection pooling, caching, retries and interceptors. Teams that treat Retrofit as the whole networking story tend to miss the caching and interceptor configuration that decides how the app behaves on a poor connection.

What your dedicated team does with Retrofit.

Error handling is where Android networking code usually degrades. A generic catch that turns every failure into one message loses the distinction between no connection, a server error and an expired token, which are three different things a user needs told differently.

Getting that right depends on knowing the product as well as the library, knowledge a long-term team builds up. What that commitment covers is set out in how the monthly fee is built.

Common Retrofit use cases.

• A visible API contract Endpoints declared in one interface, so a backend change fails the build in a known place.
• Caching and interceptors configured deliberately OkHttp configured for real network conditions.
• Failures a user can act on Distinguishing offline, server error and expired session instead of showing one generic message.

Adding Retrofit skills to your team.

Retrofit work sits inside Android capacity in a dedicated software development team.

Retrofit work is assigned to dedicated, full-time specialists who work remotely in your repositories and are managed by us. It is the model behind every offshore team at Azendo, and how companies hire software developers without running the recruiting themselves.