GraphQL on Android is here!

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The New York Times needed an Android GraphQL client and helps maintain Apollo Android, an open source Gradle plugin plus runtime that generates request/response classes, uses OKHTTP, supports RxJava, and offers two caches: an HTTP LRU cache and a normalized cache backed by SQL (or custom implementations). It ships codegen that avoids reflection, handles 20MB queries in production, includes optimistic mutation updates, has ~380 commits and thousands of tests, and is used successfully in production.

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1. 0:00Introduction to GraphQL
2. 8:53REST vs GraphQL comparison
3. 10:40Introducing Apollo Android
4. 13:05Setting up Apollo Android
5. 15:52Generated code benefits
6. 17:58Executing GraphQL queries
7. 19:01Caching strategies in Apollo
8. 24:34Custom cache implementations
9. 25:17RX Java support
10. 25:58Production readiness and testing
11. 27:02Live Q&A session

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