How can I set connection timeout for OkHttpClient? 2017

Question

It is easy to say it's duplicate but it isn't.

I read many post about how to set the connection timeout in android but the post are 4-7 years old and I think that we all need an update about this topic because those methods are deprecated or no longer exist.

So the question is how can I set my connection timeout when I am waiting for a response from the server?

final Response response = httpClient.newCall(request).execute();

if (response.isSuccessful()) {
                          //success
} else {
       //unsuccessful
}

Answer 1

If you create your OkHttpClient through an OkHttpClient.Builder, there are connectTimeout(), readTimeout(), and writeTimeout() methods that you can call for the various timeout options.

If you need to override them for a specific HTTP request, call newBuilder() on your OkHttpClient. That gives you an OkHttpClient.Builder with the same settings as you used originally. You can override those as needed, and create a temporary OkHttpClient from the new Builder, using that for this one-off call.