Handling network interruptions on Android

Asked Jan 17 '12 at 20:52

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Currently when my application is grabbing large files from the internet using HTTPURLConnection and the device drops 3G/4G/Wifi service, what ever data it was fetching does not finish or get resumed. How do I get it to resume and finish?

My current code:

// set the URL that points to a file to be downloaded
URL url = new URL(downloadURL);

// create the new connection
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

// set up some things on the connection
urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);

// connect and download
urlConnection.connect();

// used in reading the data from the internet
InputStream inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
urlConnection.disconnect();

asked Jan 17 '12 at 20:52

J Man

http://stackoverflow.com/a/4883186/1128558 -- how to resume a download. – elijah Jan 17 '12 at 20:56
ECMConstant cannot be resolved to a variable – J Man Jan 17 '12 at 21:18
yeah, it looks like you'll need to port that code a bit but there's the basic idea... – elijah Jan 17 '12 at 21:21
it looks like that's the check for whether the file is currently considered to be downloading - ie, if this attempt is restarting a file that may already exist. – elijah Jan 17 '12 at 23:41

Handling network interruptions on Android

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