cronet_http 1.1.0

An Android Flutter plugin that provides access to the Cronet HTTP client.

An Android Flutter plugin that provides access to the Cronet HTTP client.

Cronet is available as part of Google Play Services.

This package depends on Google Play Services for its Cronet implementation. package:cronet_http_embedded is functionally identical to this package but embeds Cronet directly instead of relying on Google Play Services.

Motivation

Using Cronet, rather than the socket-based dart:io HttpClient implemententation, has several advantages:

1. It automatically supports Android platform features such as HTTP proxies.
2. It supports configurable caching.
3. It supports more HTTP features such as HTTP/3.

Using

The easiest way to use this library is via the the high-level interface defined by package:http Client.

This approach allows the same HTTP code to be used on all platforms, while still allowing platform-specific setup.

import 'package:cronet_http/cronet_http.dart';
import 'package:http/http.dart';
import 'package:http/io_client.dart';

void main() async {
  final Client httpClient;
  if (Platform.isAndroid) {
    final engine = CronetEngine.build(
        cacheMode: CacheMode.memory,
        cacheMaxSize: 2 * 1024 * 1024,
        userAgent: 'Book Agent');
    httpClient = CronetClient.fromCronetEngine(engine);
  } else {
    httpClient = IOClient(HttpClient()..userAgent = 'Book Agent');
  }

  final response = await client.get(Uri.https(
      'www.googleapis.com',
      '/books/v1/volumes',
      {'q': 'HTTP', 'maxResults': '40', 'printType': 'books'}));
}