Volley is a networking library for Android that manages network requests. It bundles the most important features you’ll need, such as accessing JSON APIs, loading images and String requests in an easier-to-use package. By using Volley for network operations you avoid the standard way to handle networking,  HttpURLConnection . Another reason is asynchronicity. Volley handles asynchronicity by itself, there is no need to create  Asynctask  manually. Import Volley, add Permissions