Timeout ignored on Android devices

Describe the bug Trying to send a request (no matter what) the timeout will be ignored and is alway 5000ms. The corresponding error gives the correct value in console e.g. “timeout of 30000ms exceeded” but it was actually 5000ms. On IOs everything is working fine. Try to set the timeout for default config and for each request. Same behavior.

const header = {
  Authorization: myToken,
};

const defaultConfig = {
  baseURL: url,
  timeout: 30000,
  headers: header,
};

return axios.create(defaultConfig);

Expected behavior The Timeout will be thrown after the defined timeout on Android devices

Environment:

• Axios Version [0.18.0]
• Android Version [9.0, 8.0]
• React Native Version [0.59.1]

[teckel12]

I’ve been forced to use cancelToken and a JavaScript timeout as a replacement to defaults.timeout which doesn’t work on all platforms. Here’s sample code for those who are still having this problem a year after it was reported:

        let axiosCall = axios.CancelToken.source();
        setTimeout(() => { axiosCall.cancel(`Timeout of 3000ms exceeded`) }, 3000);
        axios({
                method: 'post',
                cancelToken: axiosCall.token,
                url: 'https://blablabla.com/route',
                data: {
                    // Your data to send here
                }
            })
            .then(({ data }) => {
                // Success
            })
            .catch((err) => {
                console.log(err.message);
            });

[camillaferreri]

I was experiencing the same problem on Android using RN. I solved the problem by adding:

<application
  ...
  // add this
  android:usesCleartextTraffic="true">

in my AndroidManifest.xml

Seems like from Android 9 it blocks any call not in https. Here’s more info.