The accepted answer with getParams() is for setting POST body data, but the question in the title asked how to set HTTP headers like User-Agent. As CommonsWare said, you override getHeaders(). Here’s some sample code which sets the User-Agent to ‘Nintendo Gameboy’ and Accept-Language to ‘fr’:
public void requestWithSomeHttpHeaders() {
RequestQueue queue = Volley.newRequestQueue(this);
String url = "http://www.somewebsite.com";
StringRequest getRequest = new StringRequest(Request.Method.GET, url,
new Response.Listener<String>()
{
@Override
public void onResponse(String response) {
// response
Log.d("Response", response);
}
},
new Response.ErrorListener()
{
@Override
public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Log.d("ERROR","error => "+error.toString());
}
}
) {
@Override
public Map<String, String> getHeaders() throws AuthFailureError {
Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
params.put("User-Agent", "Nintendo Gameboy");
params.put("Accept-Language", "fr");
return params;
}
};
queue.add(getRequest);
}