Can one set the timeout in Retrofit2 on android without creating an okHttpClient?

Question

I'm currently building a Retrofit object as follows:

Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
  .baseUrl(BASE_URL)
  .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create(gson))
  .build();

I don't need to pass it a client, i.e. no need to deal with the internals.

Now I would like to set a timeout, but all the examples I found involve creating an okHttpClient and assigning it to the Retrofit object.

Does it mean that okHttp is the de-facto client used by the system in all the situations?

CommonsWare · Accepted Answer · 2023-02-12 19:07:47Z

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Does it mean that okHttp is the de-facto client used by the system in all the situations?

Yes. Retrofit uses OkHttp for its network I/O. For example, in the Retrofit documentation, they mention in the section on R8/Proguard:

You might also need rules for OkHttp and Okio which are dependencies of this library

answered Feb 12, 2023 at 19:07

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