UTF-8 encoding in Volley Requests

Question

In my Android app I am loading json data with a Volley JsonArrayRequest. The data were created by myself and I saved them with Sublime with UTF-8 encoding. When

Answer 1

If you know that absolutely all of the files you are requesting will be in the UTF-8 format, which it sounds like you do, then you might consider forcing your Volley request to return UTF-8 formatted strings. You could accomplish this by subclassing the standard JSON request. Something like this:

public class Utf8JsonRequest extends JsonRequest {
    ...
    @Override
    protected Response parseNetworkResponse (NetworkResponse response) {
        try {
            String utf8String = new String(response.data, "UTF-8");
            return Response.success(new JSONObject(utf8String), HttpHeaderParser.parseCacheHeaders(response));
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            // log error
            return Response.error(new ParseError(e));
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            // log error
            return Response.error(new ParseError(e));
        }
    }
}