Using OAuth2.0 and Retrofit to talk to the GitHub api on Android

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Retrofit

Retrofit is a type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java.
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This particular blog post will be us building on the information from the previous blog post and using the authorization code from the GitHub OAuth API in combination with Retrofit. To finally get a access token, which allows us to make requests to the API on a behalf of a user.

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GitHub

Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
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Object RetrofitInstance { private val retrofits by lazy{ Retrofit.Builder() .baseUrl("https://github.com/") .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create()) .build() } val api:GitHubClient by lazy { retrofits.create(GitHubClient::class.java) } }.

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GitHub OAuth

OAuth is a protocol that lets external applications request authorization to private details in a user's GitHub account.

The first thing that we need to do is to read Github's documentation and find the endpoint we need to make a request to. Per the documentation, we find out that the endpoint is a POST request to https://github.com/login/oauth/access_token. We also find out that the post request takes in 3 input parameters. client_id,client_secret and code. All of which we got from my previous tutorial.

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