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Fast Android Networking Library is a powerful library for doing any type of networking in Android applications which is made on top of OkHttp Networking Layer.
Fast Android Networking Library takes care of each and everything. So you don't have to do anything, just make the request and listen for the response.
- Recent removal of HttpClient in Android Marshmallow(Android M) made other networking library obsolete.
- No other single library do each and everything like making request, downloading any type of file, uploading file, loading image from network in ImageView, etc. There are libraries but they are outdated.
- No other library provided simple interface for doing all types of things in networking like setting priority, cancelling, etc.
- As it uses Okio , No more GC overhead in android application. Okio is made to handle GC overhead while allocating memory. Okio do some clever things to save CPU and memory.
- As it uses OkHttp , most important it supports HTTP/2.
- What Fast Android Networking Library supports?
- Difference over other Networking Library
- RxJava Support For Fast Android Networking
- Have an issue or need a feature in Fast Android Networking : Create an issue
Fast Android Networking Library can be included in any Android application.
Fast Android Networking Library supports Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and later.
- Fast Android Networking Library supports all types of HTTP/HTTPS request like GET, POST, DELETE, HEAD, PUT, PATCH
- Fast Android Networking Library supports downloading any type of file
- Fast Android Networking Library supports uploading any type of file (supports multipart upload)
- Fast Android Networking Library supports cancelling a request
- Fast Android Networking Library supports setting priority to any request (LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH, IMMEDIATE)
- Fast Android Networking Library supports RxJava
As it uses OkHttp as a networking layer, it supports:
- Fast Android Networking Library supports HTTP/2 support allows all requests to the same host to share a socket
- Fast Android Networking Library uses connection pooling which reduces request latency (if HTTP/2 isn’t available)
- Transparent GZIP shrinks download sizes
- Fast Android Networking Library supports response caching which avoids the network completely for repeat requests
- In Fast Android Networking Library, OkHttpClient can be customized for every request easily.
- As Fast Android Networking Library uses OkHttp and Okio, it is faster.
- Single library for all type of networking.
- Supports RxJava -> Check here
- Current bandwidth and connection quality can be obtained to decide logic of code.
- Executor can be passed to any request to get response in another thread.
- Complete analytics of any request can be obtained.
- All types of customization is possible.
- Immediate Request is really immediate now.
- Prefetching of any request can be done so that it gives instant data when required from cache.
- Proper cancellation of request.
- Do not cancel a request if completed more than a threshold percentage.
- Simple interface to make any type of request.
- Proper Response Caching, hence reducing bandwidth usage.
- Integration with other library
- And of course many many features and bug fixes
- Square - As both OkHttp and Okio used by Fast Android Networking is developed by Square.
- Volley - As Fast Android Networking uses ImageLoader that is developed by Volley.
- Prashant Gupta - For RxJava Support - RxJava Support
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