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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Concurrency and Error Handling Making Our Code Asynchronous

Mustafa Ogün Öztürk
Mustafa Ogün Öztürk
3,468 Points
Posted by Mustafa Ogün Öztürk
Mustafa Ogün Öztürk
3,468 Points

Request Types

Hi there

As we see in this tutorial and OkHttp recipes there are two types. Synchronous Get and Asynchronous Get. We tried to use Synchronous one but we got error. So how to use Synchronous one and how do we decide when to Synchronous or Asynchronous types ?

Thanks

Boban Talevski
Boban Talevski
24,793 Points
Boban Talevski
Boban Talevski
24,793 Points

I think that we should always use the asynchronous way when making web requests for data. That is not to say that the synchronous example from the okhttp site is never to be used. I'm guessing here based on my understanding so far, the synchronous okhttp example is to be used when you are manually manipulating threads in code (generally more advanced stuff) and you are actually using the synchronous request in a separate thread which will not affect the main UI thread in any way.

I would appreciate if someone could confirm this reasoning, as I don't think we should be using a synchronous web request ever in a UI application (mobile or otherwise).