The official Retrofit page describes itself as
A type-safe REST client for Android and Java.
Retrofit turns your REST API into a Java interface. It uses annotations to describe HTTP requests, URL parameter replacement and query parameter support is integrated by default. Additionally, it provides functionality for multipart request body and file uploads.
Dependencies for the retrofit library:
From the official documentation:
Gradle:
dependencies {
...
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.3.0'
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.3.0'
...
}
Maven:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.squareup.retrofit2</groupId>
<artifactId>retrofit</artifactId>
<version>2.3.0</version>
</dependency>