This is sort of three questions Why is code gen useful Code gen is useful as a compile-time alternative to the reflective moshi-kotlin. Both of them are useful because they natively understand Kotlin code and its language features. Without them, Moshi would not be able to understand Kotlin nullability, default values, and much more. There … Read more
Moshi uses Okio to optimize a few things that Gson doesn’t. When reading field names, Moshi doesn’t have to allocate strings or do hash lookups. Moshi scans the input as a sequence of UTF-8 bytes, converting to Java chars lazily. For example, it never needs to convert integer literals to chars. The benefits of these … Read more
The warning is about methods that block current thread and coroutine cannot be properly suspended. This way, you lose all benefits of coroutines and downgrade to one job per thread again. Each case should be handled in a different way. For suspendable http calls you can use ktor http client. But sometimes there is no … Read more