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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Hooking Up the Model to the View Adding a Refresh Button

Posted by Joshua Kidd
Joshua Kidd
3,411 Points

Network Requests seem slow, when running the app on my device it takes around 5 seconds or more to update.

When I run the app on my device(LG G3) it takes about 5 - 15 seconds for OkHttp to return anything. I've tried my Wifi (which is over 50mbps down and 20mbps up) and my mobile network and the results are nearly the same.

What could be the issue here?

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

What are you asking your app to connect to, where are you located and where is the data host located?

I don't think the issue is local to your device or connection method but that would be an interesting issue to explore.

Steve.

Joshua Kidd
Joshua Kidd
3,411 Points

So, I tried my mobile network again and it works in an instant. I'm located in Denver and I've never had issues with other apps doing this. I'm just running through the videos and making a request to forecast.io, I've tried WiFi at two different places and none seems to go faster than 10 seconds, in fact sometimes the request never makes it through.

I've tried debugging with a breakpoint, but that doesn't help.