Re: How are you all doing asynchronous network calls?

[Tad]

I wrote an IntentService to do this, but it appears RoboSpice is a more featureful solution.

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Robb Shecter <ro...@weblaws.org> wrote:

I.e., for the simple case of using an https/json web service. It looks like the best solution is Robospice. 

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[C Shipley]

Hi Rob,

I just put the synchronous calls into an async task. That allowed me to use the newer apache http libraries because I had to use some multipart http posts, which at the time, I believe were not supported by the http clients in android.

If you're interested, I can throw some source up on github.

[Robb Shecter]

> If you're interested, I can throw some source up on github.

That'd be great. I'd like to see how you did this.

[marissa anderson]

I also usually use AsyncTasks for my network calls. I wrote a blog post awhile ago comparing different methods (and arguing for the use of AsyncTasks in most cases). There's some sample code in there as well.
http://electrozoic.com/asynctasks-runnables-handlers-and-threads-oh-my/

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Robb Shecter <ro...@weblaws.org> wrote:

> If you're interested, I can throw some source up on github.

That'd be great. I'd like to see how you did this.

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[Paul A. Steckler]

I've mostly used AsyncTask for that purpose, and use the Apache HTTP libraries.

Because the HTTP calls are in their own thread, it seems to be OK to use the blocking versions, i.e., no need to deal with the response in a separate handler. 

I put in timeouts for the socket so in the event of network failure, the call won't block forever.

-- Paul