Designing Apps to Handle Slow Connections
summary
Practical techniques for handling slow mobile networks on Android, including using Android Studio Network Profiler to simulate throttling and inspect latency, payload size and kbps. Covers detecting 3G/4G to serve lower-resolution images and compressed assets, adding HTTP caching with cache-control headers, fixing duplicated Retrofit clients and adding an OkHttp interceptor to log 401s and retries, resuming large ZIP downloads, and enabling offline functionality with scheduled background sync via WorkManager/JobScheduler, resulting in fewer failed loads, lower data usage and smoother UI.
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- 0:00Start
- 15:45Optimize your connection
- 16:36Avoid duplicate requests
- 17:50Adjust your content accordingly
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