If you’re still using Gson there has never been a better time to make the jump to Moshi. With the newly added Kotlin Code Generation artifact, Moshi’s laundry list of benefits over Gson keeps growing. To help Retrofit 2 users get off Gson, let’s take a look at a simple but safe upgrade path that lets you migrate endpoints one-by-one.

Annotate Your Endpoints

Start by rolling a @Moshi annotation and applying it to service methods you want to be Moshi enabled.

Two endpoints that hit the same URL, one of which is Moshi enabled.

Create a Migration Converter

Then roll a Converter.Factory that checks to see if a service method is annotated @Moshi .

Plug in Your Migration Converter

Lastly, plug your migration converter into your Retrofit instance. Your gson converter must come after the migration converter.

That’s it! You can now annotate any service method with @Moshi and Moshi will be used for serializing request and response bodies! Drop me a comment and let me know how you plan to upgrade to Moshi.