Uploading a file via Multipart

Declare your interface with Retrofit2 annotations:

public interface BackendApiClient {
    @Multipart
    @POST("/uploadFile")
    Call<RestApiDefaultResponse> uploadPhoto(@Part("file\"; filename=\"photo.jpg\" ") RequestBody photo);
}

Where RestApiDefaultResponse is a custom class containing the response.

Building the implementation of your API and enqueue the call:

Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
                                .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
                                .baseUrl("http://<yourhost>/")
                                .client(okHttpClient)
                                .build();

BackendApiClient apiClient = retrofit.create(BackendApiClient.class);
RequestBody reqBody = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("image/jpeg"), photoFile);
Call<RestApiDefaultResponse> call = apiClient.uploadPhoto(reqBody);
call.enqueue(<your callback function>);

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