Pause/Resume http connection download

android download-manager
gop picture gop · Jan 20, 2013 · Viewed 9.2k times · Source

I want to be able to open a http connection to a given file in Android and start downloading it. I also have to be able to pause the download at some point and resume it later. How is this achieved in Android? I don't want to start the download all over again.

Answer

laxonline picture laxonline · Jan 20, 2013

Such a downloader has been posted here:

HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    if(ISSUE_DOWNLOAD_STATUS.intValue()==ECMConstant.ECM_DOWNLOADING){
        File file=new File(DESTINATION_PATH);
        if(file.exists()){
             downloaded = (int) file.length();
             connection.setRequestProperty("Range", "bytes="+(file.length())+"-");
        }
    }else{
        connection.setRequestProperty("Range", "bytes=" + downloaded + "-");
    }
    connection.setDoInput(true);
    connection.setDoOutput(true);
    progressBar.setMax(connection.getContentLength());
     in = new BufferedInputStream(connection.getInputStream());
     fos=(downloaded==0)? new FileOutputStream(DESTINATION_PATH): new FileOutputStream(DESTINATION_PATH,true);
     bout = new BufferedOutputStream(fos, 1024);
    byte[] data = new byte[1024];
    int x = 0;
    while ((x = in.read(data, 0, 1024)) >= 0) {
        bout.write(data, 0, x);
         downloaded += x;
         progressBar.setProgress(downloaded);
    }

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