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https://github.com/stephanenicolas/robospice

Repo of the Open Source Android library : RoboSpice. RoboSpice is a modular android library that makes writing asynchronous long running tasks easy. It is specialized in network requests, supports caching and offers REST requests out-of-the box using extension modules.
https://github.com/stephanenicolas/robospice

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Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/stephanenicolas/robospice
Owner: stephanenicolas
License: apache-2.0
Archived: true
Created: 2012-09-19T14:09:37.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
Default Branch: release
Last Pushed: 2018-01-14T04:12:11.000Z (over 6 years ago)
Last Synced: 2024-06-20T22:32:32.000Z (3 months ago)
Language: Java
Homepage:
Size: 68.7 MB
Stars: 2,945
Watchers: 214
Forks: 545
Open Issues: 87
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        

Overview [![Build Status on Travis:](https://travis-ci.org/stephanenicolas/robospice.png)](https://travis-ci.org/stephanenicolas/robospice) [![Maven Central](https://maven-badges.herokuapp.com/maven-central/com.octo.android.robospice/robospice/badge.svg)](https://maven-badges.herokuapp.com/maven-central/com.octo.android.robospice/robospice)

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We froze RS last week, the library is not maintained anymore. Personnally, I now always use a mix of retrofit and Rx instead, RS has sailed a long way home and yes, the latest constraints in android O don't make it easy for RS at all, it's probably the last nail in its coffin. @stephanenicolas

Thx to all RS users for your warm support, it's been a pleasure to ofer this library to the community. Thx to @rciovati too for his important contributions to RS !

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RoboSpice is a modular android library that makes writing asynchronous network requests *easy* !

To learn more about RoboSpice in 30 seconds, try [this infographics]

(https://raw.github.com/stephanenicolas/robospice/master/gfx/RoboSpice-InfoGraphics.png).

If you want to start using RoboSpice right now, jump to the [Wiki](https://github.com/stephanenicolas/robospice/wiki) or the [samples](https://github.com/octo-online/RoboSpice-samples).

The [Wiki](https://github.com/stephanenicolas/robospice/wiki) has a fully detailed section to quickly setup you up whether you use Gradle, Maven or ant/eclipse.

Main features of RoboSpice

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* supports Android starting *_from_ SDK version 8 (Froyo / 2.2.x)* 

* executes network requests **asynchronously** (in a background AndroidService)

* supports **REST** out of the box (using [Spring Android](http://www.springsource.org/spring-android) or [Google Http Client](http://code.google.com/p/google-http-java-client) or [Retrofit](https://github.com/square/retrofit)).

* is strongly typed ! You query webservices using **POJOs** as parameters and you get **POJOs** as request results.

* enforces no constraints neither on POJOs used for requests nor on Activity classes you use in your projects

* **caches results** in Json with both [Jackson](http://jackson.codehaus.org/) or [Jackson2](http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonRelease20) or [Gson](http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/),

or [Xml](http://simple.sourceforge.net/), or flat text files, or binary files, even using [ORM Lite](http://ormlite.com/sqlite_java_android_orm.shtml) (still in beta)

* notifies your activities (or any other context) of the result of the network request **with respect to their lifecycles**.

* notifies your activities (or any other context) on the **UI Thread**

* **no memory leaks** at all, like Android Loaders, unlike Android AsyncTasks

* uses a simple but **robust** exception handling model

* supports **multi-threading** of request executions

* is **stable**, **efficient** and designed to respect Android philosophy

* supports request **cancelling**, request **priorization** and requests  **aggregation**

* supports aggregation of different web services

* is a full featured replacement for long running AsyncTasks even if they are not related to networking.

* is **open source** ;) 

* and **tested** (more than 200 tests)

RoboSpice is [under Quality control on Sonar's Nemo instance](http://nemo.sonarsource.org/dashboard/index/504442). Thanks to Sonar Source.

To learn more about RoboSpice

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To learn more, look at the presentation slides we created for DroidCon UK 2012, they are available in the [download section](https://github.com/stephanenicolas/robospice/downloads).

A few links : 

* Browse RoboSpice's full documentation on [the Wiki](https://github.com/stephanenicolas/robospice/wiki).

* [Javadocs](http://stephanenicolas.github.com/robospice/site/latest/apidocs/index.html).

* [Maven site](http://stephanenicolas.github.com/robospice/site/latest/index.html).

* [Discussion group on google](https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/robospice).

* [Stack Over Flow questions about RoboSpice](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/robospice)

Example code & demo

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The RoboSpice team proposes a lot of sample applications in [their own GitHub repo](https://github.com/octo-online/RoboSpice-samples).

We also propose a few demo : 

* [RoboSpice Motivations](http://goo.gl/pzqH4) : a pedagogical app that explains the motivations behind RoboSpice.

* and [a demo that illustrates non-network related requests (offline)](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.octo.android.robospice.sample.offline#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiY29tLm9jdG8uYW5kcm9pZC5yb2Jvc3BpY2Uuc2FtcGxlLm9mZmxpbmUiXQ..).

A project initiated by Octo Technology 

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![Octo Technology logo](https://raw.github.com/stephanenicolas/robospice/master/gfx/octo-ascii-logo-blue.png)

RoboSpice has been incubated at [Octo Technology](http://www.octo.com/en), a french company based in Paris, focused on software design and quality. 

It offers its employees to work part time on Research & Development projects. RoboSpice was one of them.

RoboSpice is the news 

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RoboSpice has been featured in 

* Android dev weekly mailing list, [issue 31](http://androiddevweekly.com/2012/10/29/Issue-31.html).

* Android weekly mailing list, [issue 44](http://androidweekly.net/).

* [An article of Geeek.org ](http://www.geeek.org/developpement-android-robospice-simplifie-vos-appels-reseau-asynchrone-690.html)

RoboSpice has been presented at : 

* [DroidCon London](http://uk.droidcon.com/), October 2013

* [DroidCon Paris](http://fr.droidcon.com/2013/), June 2013

* [Nantes GDG Dev Fest, France](http://devfest.gdgnantes.com/?utm_source=3eme%2Bmsg&utm_medium=google-plus&utm_campaign=mailing-devfest), November 2012

* [Paris Android User Group](http://www.paug.fr/actualite-android/conference-presentation-des-librairies-robospice-et-polaris/), November 2012

* [DroidCon Amsterdam](http://www.droidcon.nl/), November 2012

* [DroidCon London](http://uk.droidcon.com/), October 2012

[RoboSpice video at DroidConLondon](http://uk.droidcon.com/sessions/b-track-3/)

[Robospice presentation by David Stemmer](http://vimeo.com/66201359)

License

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  Copyright (C) 2012 Octo Technology (http://www.octo.com)

	Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

	you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

	You may obtain a copy of the License at

	

	     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

	

	Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

	distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

	WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

	See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

	limitations under the License.

	

Alternatives to RoboSpice 

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* [Volley](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhv8l9F44qo), and its [source code.](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/volley/)

* [DataDroid](http://www.datadroidlib.com/2012/12/datadroid-v2-is-available)

* [REST Provider](https://github.com/novoda/RESTProvider)

* [REST Droid](https://github.com/PCreations/RESTDroid)

* [PostMan (rings twice) Lib](https://github.com/fedepaol/PostmanLib--Rings-Twice--Android)

* [Ion](https://github.com/koush/ion)

* [droidQuery](http://phil-brown.github.io/droidQuery/)

* [Android Job Queue](https://github.com/path/android-priority-jobqueue)

* [Goro](http://stanfy.com/blog/goro-2/)

	

Projects related to RoboSpice 

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* [Blandware Android AtLeap Core](https://github.com/blandware/android-atleap) is a library accelerating development. It contains universal Content Provider (for SQLite, ORMLite), Drawer, Account Authenticator, etc. [AtLeap Sample](https://github.com/blandware/android-atleap/tree/master/atleap-sample) is a good example of RoboSpice, Retrofit, ORMLite, Picasso integration.

* [SpiceAnnotations](https://github.com/ddekanski/SpiceAnnotations) : using RoboSpice and Android Annotations by Daniel Dekanski. Also read his [blog post](http://blog.goyello.com/2014/06/26/androidannotations-robospice-the-best-of-both-worlds/).