Android: How To Limit Download Speed

I use AndroidHttpClient to download videos from internet. There are ways to increase download speed, but I want to know how to slow down the download speed using AndroidHttpClient

Solution 1:

Slowing the download speed is quite simple. Just read from the InputStream more slowly:

publicbyte[] rateLimitedDownload(InputStream in, int bytesPerSecond) throws IOException {
    ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    byte[] buffer = newbyte[bytesPerSecond];
    int read;

    while ((read = in.read(buffer)) != -1) {
        out.write(buffer, 0, read);
        try {
            Thread.sleep(1000);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            // nothing
        }
    }
    returnout.toByteArray();
}

This code isn't perfect - any time spent actually reading from in is not considered, and reads may be less than expected. It should give you an idea though.