Fast Android Networking vs Retrofit vs Volley

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Comparison between Android Networking Libraries, Android HTTP Libraries.

• Fast Android Networking vs Retrofit
• Fast Android Networking vs Volley

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Let’s see both the comparison one by one.

Fast Android Networking is a most complete android networking library for making HTTP request.

Fast Android Networking vs Retrofit

I have used both the networking library for Android and found that there is not a single feature that is present in Retrofit and not present in Fast Android Networking.

It means that Fast Android Networking is a most complete android networking library.

There are many features those are not present in Retrofit but is present in Fast Android Networking.

Features like:

• File download with progress.
• File upload with progress.
• Easy request cancellation.
• Very simple to use.
• Custom OkHttpClient for each request.
• Analytics of a request. How much bandwidth used?

Fast Android Networking vs Volley

There are very less features present in Volley when it compares with the Fast Android Networking. You have to write too much boilerplate code to upload a file in Volley which can be easily done with Fast Android Networking. Downloading and uploading a file is easily supported by Fast Android Networking but not by Volley. Fast Android Networking has inbuilt parsing which is not present in Volley.

Here are some advantages of using Fast Android Networking library over other libraries:

1. OkHttpClient can be customized for every request easily — like timeout customization, etc. for each request.
2. As it uses OkHttpClient and Okio, it is faster.
3. Supports RxJava and RxJava2 — check here.
4. Supports JSON Parsing to Java Objects (also support Jackson Parser).
5. Complete analytics of any request can be obtained. You can know bytes sent, bytes received, and the time taken on any request. These analytics are important so that you can find the data usage of your application and the time taken for each request, so you can identify slow requests.
6. You can get the current bandwidth and connection quality to write better logical code — download high quality images on excellent connection quality and low on poor connection quality.
7. Proper Response Caching — which leads to reduced bandwidth usage.
8. An executor can be passed to any request to get a response in another thread. If you are doing a heavy task with the response, you can not do that in main thread.
9. A single library for all types of networking — download, upload, multipart.
10. Prefetching of any request can be done so that it gives instant data when required from the cache.
11. All types of customization are possible.
12. Immediate Request really is immediate now.
13. Proper request canceling.
14. Prevents cancellation of a request if it’s completed more than a specific threshold percentage.
15. A simple interface to make any type of request.

Why should you use Fast Android Networking Library?

• The recent removal of HttpClient in Android Marshmallow(Android M) made other networking library obsolete.
• No other single library do each and everything like making the request, downloading any type of file, uploading file, loading image from the network in ImageView, etc. There are libraries but they are outdated.
• As it uses OkHttp, most important it supports HTTP/2.
• No other library provides the simple interface for doing all types of things in networking like setting priority, canceling, etc.

Try all, I am sure you will love Fast Android Networking.

It is being already used in many top apps present on playStore having download in millions.