Say “hi” to Moshi
JSON serialization is an everyday task for Android developers, but it’s still not a trivial one. Long used solutions such as Gson have serious pain points, especially when using them with Kotlin. Could Moshi be our saviour when it comes to dealing with JSON on Android? We’ll look at how to use it, what problems it solves, and how nicely it plays with our favourite JVM language.
Resources:
- A Few Ok Libraries
- Jake Wharton, Square, Droidcon Montreal 2015
- Upgrading to Moshi
- Eric Cochran, Pinterest, droidcon NYC 2017
- JSON Explained
- Jesse Wilson, Square, Chicago Roboto 2019
- Moshi, another JSON Processor
- Jesse Wilson
- Exploring Moshi’s codegen
- Zac Sweers
- Reflection Machines
- Jesse Wilson
- Advanced JSON parsing techniques using Moshi and Kotlin
- Christophe Beyls
- Primaries Matter (a discussion of constructors)
- Márton Braun
- moshi-ksp in MoshiX