Re: [android-developers] How are big android applications managaging and optimizing network calls specially for poor networks like 2g ?

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[android-developers] How are big android applications managaging and optimizing network calls specially for poor networks like 2g ?

Hi, Look at the existing reference materials already provided eg http://developer.android.com/training/efficient-downloads/index.html http://developer.android.com/training/efficient-downloads/efficient-network-access.html http://developer.android.com/training/basics/network-ops/index.html

[android-developers] How are big android applications managaging and optimizing network calls specially for poor networks like 2g ?

Today most of the applications use internet in some way or the other. But in a country like India, network is the one of the major issues for most of the users. Most Indian users are still on mobile networks rather than Wifi. Even networks like 3g tend to be very slow. So in this scenario,