I'm trying to teach myself how to use REST APIs in Android Studio. I'm very new to Android Development as a whole and this will only be the second time that I've used a REST API. I have attempted to follow a few tutorials on YouTube but I'm still having issues and I feel like the solution is going to be very simple and I'm going to feel very stupid, especially since I'm using RetroFit... I just want to see the Pokemon names shown in the list view (for now at least).
Here are my code files
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
final ListView listView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listView);
Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
.baseUrl(Pokeapi.URL)
.addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
.build();
Pokeapi pokeapi = retrofit.create(Pokeapi.class);
Call<List<Pokemon>> call = pokeapi.getPokemonNameAndPic();
call.enqueue(new Callback<List<Pokemon>>() {
@Override
public void onResponse(Call<List<Pokemon>> call, Response<List<Pokemon>> response) {
List<Pokemon> pokemon = response.body();
String[] pokemonNames = new String[pokemon.size()];
for (int i = 0; i < pokemon.size(); i++) {
pokemonNames[i] = pokemon.get(i).getName();
}
listView.setAdapter(
new ArrayAdapter<String>(
getApplicationContext(),
android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,
pokemonNames
)
);
}
@Override
public void onFailure(Call<List<Pokemon>> call, Throwable t) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), t.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
}
}
_
public interface Pokeapi {
String URL = "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/";
@GET("pokemon")
Call<List<Pokemon>> getPokemonNameAndPic();
}
_
public class Pokemon {
private String url;
private String name;
public Pokemon(String url, String name) {
this.url = url;
this.name = name;
}
public String getUrl() {
return url;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
}
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you :)
You must write your model classes according to your json response.So in this case you should change your "Pokemon" class into :
public class Data {
@SerializedName("count")
private Integer count;
@SerializedName("previous")
private Object previous;
@SerializedName("results")
private List<Pokemon> results = null;
@SerializedName("next")
private String next;
public Integer getCount() {
return count;
}
public void setCount(Integer count) {
this.count = count;
}
public Object getPrevious() {
return previous;
}
public void setPrevious(Object previous) {
this.previous = previous;
}
public List<Pokemon> getResults() {
return results;
}
public void setResults(List<Pokemon> results) {
this.results = results;
}
public String getNext() {
return next;
}
public void setNext(String next) {
this.next = next;
}
public class Pokemon {
@SerializedName("url")
private String url;
@SerializedName("name")
private String name;
public String getUrl() {
return url;
}
public void setUrl(String url) {
this.url = url;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
}
}
And you api interface as :
public interface Pokeapi {
String URL = "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/";
@GET("pokemon")
Call<Data> getPokemonNameAndPic();
}
Update your mainActivity as :
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
final ListView listView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listView);
Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
.baseUrl(Pokeapi.URL)
.addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
.build();
Pokeapi pokeapi = retrofit.create(Pokeapi.class);
Call<Data> call = pokeapi.getPokemonNameAndPic();
call.enqueue(new Callback<Data>() {
@Override
public void onResponse(Call<Data> call, Response<Data> response) {
Log.d("response", response.body().toString());
Data data = response.body();
String[] pokemonNames = new String[data.getResults().size()];
for (int i = 0; i < data.getResults().size(); i++) {
pokemonNames[i] = data.getResults().get(i).getName();
}
for (String item : pokemonNames){
Log.d("item", item);
}
listView.setAdapter(
new ArrayAdapter<String>(
getApplicationContext(),
android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,
pokemonNames
)
);
}
@Override
public void onFailure(Call<Data> call, Throwable t) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), t.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
});
}
}