how to read incoming data from socket in android

Question

I create a socket in my android app, when I connect to server I create an InputStream for this socket to read incoming data from server:

socket = new Socket(address, port);

ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(1024);
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];

int bytesRead;
InputStream inputStream = socket.getInputStream();
         while ((bytesRead = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1){
             byteArrayOutputStream.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
             response += byteArrayOutputStream.toString("UTF-8");
             // the execution is blocked at this line and does not get out  
             //from the while
         }
  }

After getting the input stream I try to read bytes and fill a String(response) but it blocks within the while -loop when reading all the data from server. This means that the condition in while is not satisfied. I'm sending phrases like this: "hello how are you"

Answer 1

Maybe you should break while loop when \\n arrive or something like that from server. Loop is still waiting for new data to read.