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I've been pointing out to people for some time now that Apple has docs (buried, of course, because it's Apple...) that outright indicate they do things behind the scenes with NSURLSession & co to make battery/radio management better. The effect of people dodging it in cross-platform frameworks has been something I've long wondered about.

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This library seems to use platform APIs under the hood, so it might end up performing similarly.

It uses CURL on Android.

There are no platform APIs for networking exposed on the NDK, beyond plain old POSIX sockets.

The alternative would be some JNI boilerplate to access Android Framework networking APIs.

I've long wondered about this, as well as the overhead of these cross-platform frameworks bundling an entire HTTP library (if they do? It's never easy to tell). Kudos to Kotlin Multiplatform, it seems that lets you use native APIs whenever you want.

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