AsyncHttpClient library

This is a lightweight asynchronous HTTP client powered by OkHttp but with a significantly simplified and easier to use API design.

The goal of this library is to have an API that clearly and cleanly supports the following features:

• Asynchronous network requests without any need for manual thread handling
• Response onSuccess callbacks run on the mainthread (by default)
• Easy way to catch all errors and failures and handle them
• Easy pluggable Text, JSON, and Bitmap response handlers to parse the response

This client tries to follow a similar API inspired by this older now deprecated android-async-http library.

Setup

To use this library, add the following to your .gradle file:

dependencies {
  implementation 'com.codepath.libraries:asynchttpclient:2.1.1'
}

Basic usage

1. Make sure all network calls are using https:// instead of http://

2. Verify that network access is allowed via the <uses-permission>:

   <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                package="com.codepath.example">
   
          <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />```

3. Add any networking calls by leveraging the AsyncHttpClient

   AsyncHttpClient client = new AsyncHttpClient();
   client.get("https://api.thecatapi.com/v1/images/search", new TextHttpResponseHandler() {
       @Override
       public void onSuccess(int statusCode, Headers headers, String response) {
           Log.d("DEBUG", response);
       }
   
       @Override
       public void onFailure(int statusCode, @Nullable Headers headers, String errorResponse, @Nullable Throwable throwable) {
           Log.d("DEBUG", errorResponse);
       }
   });

   This example uses TextHttpResponseHandler which presents the response as raw text. We could use the JsonHttpResponseHandler instead to have the API response automatically parsed for us into JSON. See other example calls here.

For more detailed usages, check out the CodePath Async Http Client Guide.