Android pre-lollipop devices giving error “SSL handshake aborted: ssl=0x618d9c18: I/O error during system call, Connection reset by peer”

Finally found a solution to this issue, its not a complete solution as it is a hack mentioned by Jesse Wilson from okhttp, square here. As i mentioned it was a simple hack where i had to rename my SSLSocketFactory variable to

private SSLSocketFactory delegate;

notice that it would throw error if you give any name other than delegate. Iam posting my complete solution below

This is my TLSSocketFactory class

public class TLSSocketFactory extends SSLSocketFactory {

private SSLSocketFactory delegate;
private TrustManager[] trustManagers;

public TLSSocketFactory() throws KeyManagementException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyStoreException {
    generateTrustManagers();
    SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
    context.init(null, trustManagers, null);
    delegate = context.getSocketFactory();
}

private void generateTrustManagers() throws KeyStoreException, NoSuchAlgorithmException {
    TrustManagerFactory trustManagerFactory = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());
    trustManagerFactory.init((KeyStore) null);
    TrustManager[] trustManagers = trustManagerFactory.getTrustManagers();

    if (trustManagers.length != 1 || !(trustManagers[0] instanceof X509TrustManager)) {
        throw new IllegalStateException("Unexpected default trust managers:"
                + Arrays.toString(trustManagers));
    }

    this.trustManagers = trustManagers;
}


@Override
public String[] getDefaultCipherSuites() {
    return delegate.getDefaultCipherSuites();
}

@Override
public String[] getSupportedCipherSuites() {
    return delegate.getSupportedCipherSuites();
}

@Override
public Socket createSocket() throws IOException {
    return enableTLSOnSocket(delegate.createSocket());
}

@Override
public Socket createSocket(Socket s, String host, int port, boolean autoClose) throws IOException {
    return enableTLSOnSocket(delegate.createSocket(s, host, port, autoClose));
}

@Override
public Socket createSocket(String host, int port) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
    return enableTLSOnSocket(delegate.createSocket(host, port));
}

@Override
public Socket createSocket(String host, int port, InetAddress localHost, int localPort) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
    return enableTLSOnSocket(delegate.createSocket(host, port, localHost, localPort));
}

@Override
public Socket createSocket(InetAddress host, int port) throws IOException {
    return enableTLSOnSocket(delegate.createSocket(host, port));
}

@Override
public Socket createSocket(InetAddress address, int port, InetAddress localAddress, int localPort) throws IOException {
    return enableTLSOnSocket(delegate.createSocket(address, port, localAddress, localPort));
}

private Socket enableTLSOnSocket(Socket socket) {
    if(socket != null && (socket instanceof SSLSocket)) {
        ((SSLSocket)socket).setEnabledProtocols(new String[] {"TLSv1.1", "TLSv1.2"});
    }
    return socket;
}

@Nullable
public X509TrustManager getTrustManager() {
    return  (X509TrustManager) trustManagers[0];
}

}

and this is how i used it with okhttp and retrofit

 OkHttpClient client=new OkHttpClient();
    try {
        TLSSocketFactory tlsSocketFactory=new TLSSocketFactory();
        if (tlsSocketFactory.getTrustManager()!=null) {
            client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
                    .sslSocketFactory(tlsSocketFactory, tlsSocketFactory.getTrustManager())
                    .build();
        }
    } catch (KeyManagementException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (KeyStoreException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
            .baseUrl(URL)
            .client(client)
            .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
            .build();

EDIT : The method public Builder sslSocketFactory(SSLSocketFactory sslSocketFactory) is now deprecated and we should use public Builder sslSocketFactory(
SSLSocketFactory sslSocketFactory, X509TrustManager trustManager) as i have updated in the answer. This is because X509TrustManager is a field that OkHttp needs to build a clean certificate chain, which was not paased in the deprecated method.

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