Broadcast receiver for checking internet connection in android app

I am developing an android broadcast receiver for checking internet connection. The problem is that my broadcast receiver is being called two times. I want it to get called only when the network is available. If it is unavailable, I don’t want notified. This is the broadcast receiver public class NetworkChangeReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver { @Override … Read more

Comparison of Android networking libraries: OkHTTP, Retrofit, and Volley [closed]

Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 5 years ago. Improve this question Two-part question from an iOS developer learning Android, working on an Android project that will make a variety of … Read more

How to check internet access on Android? InetAddress never times out

I got a AsyncTask that is supposed to check the network access to a host name. But the doInBackground() is never timed out. Anyone have a clue? public class HostAvailabilityTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Boolean> { private Main main; public HostAvailabilityTask(Main main) { this.main = main; } protected Boolean doInBackground(String… params) { Main.Log(“doInBackground() isHostAvailable():”+params[0]); try { … Read more

How can I fix ‘android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException’?

I got an error while running my Android project for RssReader. Code: URL url = new URL(urlToRssFeed); SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser(); XMLReader xmlreader = parser.getXMLReader(); RssHandler theRSSHandler = new RssHandler(); xmlreader.setContentHandler(theRSSHandler); InputSource is = new InputSource(url.openStream()); xmlreader.parse(is); return theRSSHandler.getFeed(); And it shows the below error: android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException How can I fix this … Read more