AFNetworking for Android

Question

I am in the process of porting my iOS app to Android, and am now in need of a simple to use asynchronous class set to download JSON data and images.

For iOS I am using AFNetworking which is an amazing tool. Is there anything like that for Android?

Solution 1

There's loop j's async http lib for Android (though I'm not a huge fan) http://loopj.com/android-async-http/. Honestly, best thing is just to use apache httpclient inside of an intentservice so it's async and then deliver the results to your activities, etc through a ResultReceiver.

UPDATE

I now recommend Retrofit, an open-source project from Square. I use it and it works very well as a REST client. http://square.github.io/retrofit/

Solution 2

You could try RoboSpice. Give us feedback, if it was, what you needed.

Solution 3

Another good option could be Volley, networking library introduced on IO 2013 by Google. For more info check this topic: Volley Android Networking Library

Solution 4

This lib is awesome. i think is all you want give a try dude

https://code.google.com/p/android-query/wiki/AsyncAPI

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Comments

[Ashley Staggs]

Thanks, I will look into it. May I ask why you don't like it much?

[Ashley Staggs]

It looks really good and I may use it in a future app, however, loopj's async lib has already been implemented in the app I was working on. Thanks

[KVISH]

Any reason you don't like it? Even I would love to know.