Android Volley is a deprecated unofficial mirror of Google’s Volley networking library with a small number of additional bug fixes. It was packaged for convenient Gradle installation through an older Maven Central artifact. The underlying library schedules Android network requests, supports concurrent connections, and provides disk and memory response caching. It can prioritize or cancel requests and includes customizable retry and backoff behavior. Standard request types handle strings, JSON, and images, while custom request classes can support other response formats. Volley is intended mainly for short RPC-style operations that populate application interfaces rather than large downloads or continuous streams. This mirror is no longer maintained, and new projects should use Google’s official Volley distribution.
Features
- Automatic network request scheduling
- Concurrent Android HTTP connections
- Disk and memory response caching
- Request prioritization and cancellation
- String, JSON, and image requests
- Custom retry and backoff behavior