Kotlin native equivalent of Retrofit

Question

With Kotlin native giving us the promise of cross platform development and native executables, is there an equivalent of the Java lib Retrofit for Kotlin Native? IOW is there a pure Kotlin networking library that makes creating http client code simple, and quick as Retrofit does for Java?

Answer 1

I've just published an example project where I use ktor-client in a Kotlin project with both iOS and Android.

https://github.com/thoutbeckers/kotlin-mpp-example

( note: this example is now very out of date, but in the meanwhile ktor has progressed tremendously, and also have a multiplatform sample: https://ktor.io/learn/ )

Answer 2

At the moment wrapping some C library, like CURL is the best option. See https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlinconf-spinner/tree/master/kurl for example of how it could be done.

In this example we provide interoperability library matching CURL directly, and more Kotlin'ish wrapper, which calls (somewhat confusing) CURL APIs in more easy to use manner.