Best substitute, successor or alternative for ASIHTTP for a download queue

Question

I've recently read the news on http://allseeing-i.com that ASIHTTP is being discontinued. I have much respect for the makers of the library. However, I am now looking for a substitute that also supports queued download (multithreaded) on iOS, that also supports a progress bar with appropriate information.

Is there any (hopefully lightweight) library, that is in an active development livecycle? ARC support would also be much appreciated.

Many thanks for your thoughts.

Answer 1

You may want to look at MKNetworkKit. In its words:

MKNetworkKit's goal was to make it as feature rich as ASIHTTPRequest yet simple and elegant to use like AFNetworking

It has a number of very nice features for queuing and managing offline situations.

Answer 2

AFNetworking is being lauded as a successor to ASIHTTPRequest. It is based on operation queues, and in my experience it works reasonably well. You could probably do what you want to do without a third-party library, but if you want to make it a little easier on yourself, a combination of AFURLConnectionOperation subclasses and the AFHTTPClient class will do nicely.

Answer 3

I wrote one recently. It's fully ARC compliant and fairly lightweight:

https://github.com/nicklockwood/RequestQueue

As of version 1.2 it supports download and upload progress bars (see the included ProgressLoader example).

Rather than make a monolithic framework like ASI, I've tried to keep this as simple as possible. That means you are free to mix and match it with other libraries for stuff like POST parameter generation, JSON parsing, etc.