Ion is a networking library for Android by Koushik Dutta.
Ion
Ion is a networking library for Android by Koushik Dutta.
Features
- Asynchronously download:
- Easy to use Fluent API designed for Android
- Automatically cancels operations when the calling Activity finishes
- Manages invocation back onto the UI thread
- All operations return a Future and can be cancelled
- HTTP POST/PUT:
- text/plain
- application/json (both JsonObject and POJO)
- application/x-www-form-urlencoded
- multipart/form-data
- Transparent usage of HTTP features and optimizations:
- 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
- Grouping and cancellation of requests
- Download progress callbacks
- Supports file:/, http(s):/, and content:/ URIs
- Request level logging and profiling
- Support for proxy servers like Charles Proxy to do request analysis
- Based on NIO and AndroidAsync
- Ability to use self signed SSL certificates
Usage
Usage and more information can be found in the original repository: https://github.com/koush/ion
