Changing User Agent in OSMDroid

Issue

Is it possible to change User Agent I send with every tile request in OSMDroid?

I'm currently getting 403 Forbidden error whenever I try to download a tile (as described in another SO question), probably because OSMDroid itself has been banned.

Solution

It looks like the only way to specify the User Agent is to modify OSMDroid's MapTileDownloader.loadTile() method in the following way:

final HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
final HttpUriRequest head = new HttpGet(tileURLString);
head.setHeader("User-Agent", "OSMDroid"); // Add this line
final HttpResponse response = client.execute(head);

It solves the 403 Forbidden tile download problem.

Answered By - syntagma