Getting started with android-volley

Remarks#

This section provides an overview of what android-volley is, and why a developer might want to use it.

It should also mention any large subjects within android-volley, and link out to the related topics. Since the Documentation for android-volley is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topics.

Installation And Setup

Installation

Volley JCenter Gradle Import

//in your project's app level build.gradle
compile 'com.android.volley:volley:1.0.0'

Create a subclass of Application

public class AppController extends Application {

    public static final String TAG = AppController.class
            .getSimpleName();

    private RequestQueue mRequestQueue;
    private ImageLoader mImageLoader;

    private static AppController mInstance;

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        mInstance = this;
    }

    public static synchronized AppController getInstance() {
        return mInstance;
    }

    public RequestQueue getRequestQueue() {
        if (mRequestQueue == null) {
            mRequestQueue = Volley.newRequestQueue(getApplicationContext());
        }

        return mRequestQueue;
    }

    public ImageLoader getImageLoader() {
        getRequestQueue();
        if (mImageLoader == null) {
            mImageLoader = new ImageLoader(this.mRequestQueue,
                    new LruBitmapCache());
        }
        return this.mImageLoader;
    }

    public <T> void addToRequestQueue(Request<T> req, String tag) {
        // set the default tag if tag is empty
        req.setTag(TextUtils.isEmpty(tag) ? TAG : tag);
        getRequestQueue().add(req);
    }

    public <T> void addToRequestQueue(Request<T> req) {
        req.setTag(TAG);
        getRequestQueue().add(req);
    }

    public void cancelPendingRequests(Object tag) {
        if (mRequestQueue != null) {
            mRequestQueue.cancelAll(tag);
        }
    }
}

Create a StringRequest

 public class StringRequestActivity extends Activity {

 private String TAG = StringRequestActivity.class.getSimpleName();
 private Button btnStringReq;
 private TextView msgResponse;


 // This tag will be used to cancel the request
 private String tag_string_req = "string_req";

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_string);

    btnStringReq = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnStringReq);
    msgResponse = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.msgResponse);

    btnStringReq.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            makeStringReq();
        }
    });
}


/**
 * Making json object request
 * */
private void makeStringReq() {
    

    StringRequest strReq = new StringRequest(Method.GET,
            "https://www.myurl.com", new Response.Listener<String>() {

                @Override
                public void onResponse(String response) {
                    Log.d(TAG, response.toString());
                    msgResponse.setText(response.toString());
                    

                }
            }, new Response.ErrorListener() {

                @Override
                public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
                    VolleyLog.d(TAG, "Error: " + error.getMessage());
                    
                }
            });

    // Adding request to request queue
    AppController.getInstance().addToRequestQueue(strReq, tag_string_req);

  }
}

Singleton RequestQueue Setup

Generally it’s recommended that you use a single RequestQueue throughout your Application. So, you want to have one NetworkRequestManager singleton that contains your Volley RequestQueue. A simple implementation would be:

public class NetworkRequestManager {

private static final String TAG = NetworkRequestManager.class.getName();

private static NetworkRequestManager mManager;

private RequestQueue requestQueue;

private NetworkRequestManager(@NonNull final Context context) {
   initQueue(context);
}

/**
 * @return A NetworkRequestManager with an initialized RequestQueue
 */
public static synchronized NetworkRequestManager getInstance(@NonNull final Context context) {
    if(mManager == null){
        mManager = new NetworkRequestManager(context);
    }
    return mManager;
}

/**
 * Initialize your request queue.  This uses the default Volley
 * setup.
 *
 * @param context
 */
private void initQueue(Context context) {
    if (requestQueue == null) {
        requestQueue = Volley.newRequestQueue(context.getApplicationContext());
    }
}

/**
 * @Return our initialized RequestQueue
*/
public RequestQueue getRequestQueue() {
    return requestQueue;
}

/**
 * Cancels all requests for the given object tag
 *
 * @param tag
 */
@Override
public void cancelAllForTag(Object tag) {
    getRequestQueue().cancelAll(tag);
}

/**
 *
 * A convenience method for adding requests to the queue that are associated with a tag for cancellation
 *
 * @param request
 * @param tag
 */
@Override
public void addRequest(Request<?> request, Object tag) {
    request.setTag(tag);
    getRequestQueue().add(request);
}