Volley is a new Networking library from a bunch of Google Engineers. I spent today working with it on a few things, and came away impressed, mostly on how much it simplifies the *entire* codebase, rather than just the networking part.

(https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/325304728 is so far the only documentation available, but the code is pretty sweet and short too)

It can replace not just UIL (Image Loader library), but also the Mediawiki API Wrapper I wrote a while ago. We can also use this opportunity to switch to JSON from XML.

This will lead to much cleaner code (a lot of AsyncTasks and assorted other inner classes will just disappear), better performance and proper caching!

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