Android network libraries

Network libraries allow Android apps to connect to other devices, online services and to set up asynchronous network requests.

This overview of Android network SDKs provides you the most-used and well-known libraries, including SDKs like Retrofit, okHttp, Apache HttpMime API, Android Asynchronous Http Client and dnsjava.

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Libraries

Grpc

A high-performance, open-source universal RPC framework.

5.15% of apps

14.39% of installs

Retrofit

A type-safe REST client for Android and Java

16.39% of apps

13.90% of installs

Volley

Volley is an HTTP library that makes networking for Android apps easier and faster.

10.00% of apps

13.73% of installs

HttpClient for Android

This is a repackaging of HttpClient for Android.

1.94% of apps

3.12% of installs

Apache Http Auth

The API for client-side HTTP authentication against a server.

3.14% of apps

2.91% of installs

okHttp

OkHttp is an efficient HTTP client providing features such as SPDY, connection pooling, transparent…

5.44% of apps

2.76% of installs

Apache HttpMime API

This module provides support for MIME multipart encoded entities.

1.45% of apps

2.07% of installs

Android Asynchronous Http Client

An asynchronous callback-based Http client for Android built on top of Apache's HttpClient librarie…

2.12% of apps

1.36% of installs

dnsjava

dnsjava is an implementation of DNS in Java.

0.22% of apps

0.78% of installs

AndroidAsync

AndroidAsync is a low level network protocol library.

0.64% of apps

0.46% of installs

Fast Android Networking

Android Networking is a library for doing any type of networking in Android applications which is m…

0.44% of apps

0.25% of installs

JCraft

Different pure java implementations of opensource libraries, such as zlib or ssh.

0.15% of apps

0.12% of installs

Basic HTTP Client

A basic HTTP client based on HttpUrlConnection which lets you easily make asynchronous GET, POST, P…

0.03% of apps

0.07% of installs

The Java CIFS Client Library (JCIFS)

JCIFS is an open-source client library that implements the CIFS/SMB networking protocol in 100% Jav…

0.10% of apps

0.04% of installs

HttpClient for Android

This is a repackaging of HttpClient 4.2.3 for Android, which contains some much-needed bugfixes as …

0.05% of apps

0.04% of installs

RoboSpice

RoboSpice is a modular android library that makes writing asynchronous network requests easy.

0.06% of apps

0.03% of installs

GeckoView

GeckoView is Mozilla Firefox Quantum's engine ("Gecko"), packaged as a reusable Android library.

0.02% of apps

0.02% of installs

Android Smart Image View

SmartImageView is a drop-in replacement for Android's standard ImageView which additionally allows …

0.15% of apps

0.02% of installs

Project Kenai - jbosh

This project is a Java implementation of XMPP.org's XEP-0124 'Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronou…

0.03% of apps

0.00% of installs

MongoDB Java Driver

Android compliant java-driver to connect to a MongoDB.

0.00% of apps

0.00% of installs