The Android platform provides a framework API that applications can use to interact with the underlying Android system. The framework API consists of: A core set of packages and classes. A set of permissions that applications can request, as well as permission enforcements included in the system

Gson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. It can also be used to convert a JSON string to an equivalent Java object. Gson can work with arbitrary Java objects including pre-existing objects that you do not have source-code of.

IntelliLang is a combination of three basic kinds of functionality that are meant to support the developer in dealing with certain tasks that relate to (custom) languages in IntelliJ IDEA: "Language Injection": Editing code that is embedded into String literals and XML fragments where it would be great to get the same kind of IDE support like if the code was being edited "natively" "Pattern Validation": Provides assistance in making sure that Strings being passed to and from methods match a particular regular expression "Regular Expression Support": A custom language implementation for regular expressions.

Kotlin is a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type inference. Kotlin is designed to interoperate fully with Java, and the JVM version of Kotlin's standard library depends on the Java Class Library, but type inference allows its syntax to be more concise.Android mobile development has been Kotlin-first since Google I/O in 2019.

Okio is a new library that complements java.io and java.nio to make it much easier to access, store, and process your data.A modern I/O library for Android, Kotlin, and Java

Retrofit is type-safe REST client for Android and Java which aims to make it easier to consume RESTful web services. ... Retrofit automatically serialises the JSON response using a POJO(Plain Old Java Object) which must be defined in advanced for the JSON Structure.

HTTP is the way modern applications network. It’s how we exchange data & media. Doing HTTP efficiently makes your stuff load faster and saves bandwidth. OkHttp is an HTTP client that’s efficient by default: HTTP/2 support allows all requests to the same host to share a socket. Connection pooling reduces request latency (if HTTP/2 isn’t available). Transparent GZIP shrinks download sizes. Response caching avoids the network completely for repeat requests. OkHttp perseveres when the network is troublesome: it will silently recover from common connection problems. If your service has multiple IP addresses OkHttp will attempt alternate addresses if the first connect fails. This is necessary for IPv4+IPv6 and for services hosted in redundant data centers. OkHttp supports modern TLS features (TLS 1.3, ALPN, certificate pinning). It can be configured to fall back for broad connectivity. Using OkHttp is easy. Its request/response API is designed with fluent builders and immutability. It supports both synchronous blocking calls and async calls with callbacks.