Android Volley: gzip answer

Question

What type of response listener should we use to handle gzip responses with Android Volley?

If a String listener is used, the answer seems to lose its encoding.

How do you handle gzip responses with Volley?

BASIC IMAGE: HttpUrlConnection automatically adds the gzip header to requests, and if the response is gzipped, it will easily decode it and present you with the answer. All gzip stuff happens behind the scenes and you don’t need to do what I wrote as an answer to this question. See the documentation here http://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/HttpURLConnection.html

In fact, the answer I posted MUST NOT be used because gzip decoding is extremely slow and should be left to handle the HttpUrlConnection.

Here is the exact part from the documentation:

By default, this HttpURLConnection implementation requires that servers use gzip compression. Since getContentLength () returns the number of bytes transferred, you cannot use this method to predict how many bytes can be read from getInputStream (). Instead, read that thread until it is exhausted: when read () returns -1. Gzip compression can be disabled by setting acceptable encodings in the request header:

urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "identity");

Answer 1

So, I figured out how to do this.

Basically, I have expanded StringRequest so that it responds to the network response in a different way.

You can simply parse the bytearray response with GZipInputStream and return the resulting string.

Here is the gist: https://gist.github.com/premnirmal/8526542

Answer 2

You must use ion , it comes preloaded

 Transparent usage of HTTP features and optimizations: SPDY and HTTP/2 Caching Gzip/Deflate Compression Connection pooling/reuse via HTTP Connection: keep-alive Uses the best/stablest connection from a server if it has multiple IP addresses Cookies