PRDownloader — A File Downloader Library For Android

PRDownloader: A file downloader library for Android with pause and resume support.

I recently published a library, which I believe to be the simplest way to handle downloading in Android with pause and resume support.

Overview of PRDownloader library:

• This file downloader library can be used to download any type of files like image, video, pdf, apk and etc.
• This file downloader library supports pause and resumes while downloading a file.
• Supports large file downloads.
• This downloader library has a simple interface to make a download request.
• We can check if the status of downloading with the given download Id.
• PRDownloader gives callbacks for everything like onProgress, onCancel, onStart, onError and etc while downloading a file.
• Supports proper request canceling.
• Many requests can be made in parallel.
• All types of customization are possible.

How to use the PRDownloader library?

Using PRDownloader Library in your Android application

Add this in your build.gradle

compile 'com.mindorks.android:prdownloader:0.3.0'

Do not forget to add internet permission in manifest if already not present:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

Then initialize it in onCreate() Method of application class :

PRDownloader.initialize(getApplicationContext());

Initializing it with some customization

// Enabling database for resume support even after the application is killed:
PRDownloaderConfig config = PRDownloaderConfig.newBuilder()
                .setDatabaseEnabled(true)
                .build();
PRDownloader.initialize(getApplicationContext(), config);

// Setting timeout globally for the download network requests:
PRDownloaderConfig config = PRDownloaderConfig.newBuilder()
                .setReadTimeout(30_000)
                .setConnectTimeout(30_000)
                .build();
PRDownloader.initialize(getApplicationContext(), config); 

Make a download request:

int downloadId = PRDownloader.download(url, dirPath, fileName)
                        .build()
                        .setOnStartOrResumeListener(new OnStartOrResumeListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onStartOrResume() {
                               
                            }
                        })
                        .setOnPauseListener(new OnPauseListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onPause() {
                               
                            }
                        })
                        .setOnCancelListener(new OnCancelListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onCancel() {
                                
                            }
                        })
                        .setOnProgressListener(new OnProgressListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onProgress(Progress progress) {
                               
                            }
                        })
                        .start(new OnDownloadListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onDownloadComplete() {
                               
                            }

                            @Override
                            public void onError(Error error) {
                               
                            }
                        });            

Pause a download request

PRDownloader.pause(downloadId);

Resume a download request

PRDownloader.resume(downloadId);

Cancel a download request

// Cancel with the download id
PRDownloader.cancel(downloadId);
// The tag can be set to any request and then can be used to cancel the request
PRDownloader.cancel(TAG);
// Cancel all the requests
PRDownloader.cancelAll();

Status of a download request

Status status = PRDownloader.getStatus(downloadId);

Clean up resumed files if database enabled

// Method to clean up temporary resumed files which is older than the given day
PRDownloader.cleanUp(days);

More examples and the PRDownloader Library Github Project are available here.

Happy Downloading