In this episode, the second in a bizarrely and completely unplanned series on Play Store technology, Tor Norbye and Chet Haase are joined by Ficus Kirkpatrick from the Play Store team (and from many other Android projects from the early days). Listen in to hear what Volley is for and how you can use it to simplify your network requests and bitmap download/caching code. Relevant links: Volley: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/volley/ Volley email list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/volley-users Gson adapter for Volley: https://gist.github.com/ficusk/5474673 Subscribe to the podcast at http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/AndroidDevelopersBackstage. Or download directly at http://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/android_developers_backstage/Android%20Developers%20Backstage%20Ep%208%20Volley.mp3