rest data getting cached android - android

I am using the code below to fetch data from server. When the data is updated on server, I get the old data from this method. When I use the same method in the web browser i get updated data.
Even when I stop the app and start again it reflects old data but when I have cleaned all my tasks using task manager, I get new data.
Is the data being cached on the device as i am making new request each time
String response = null;
InputStream inputStream = null;
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
try {
URL url = new URL(urlString);
urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
urlConnection.setReadTimeout(10000);
urlConnection.setConnectTimeout(15000);
if (method == POST) {
urlConnection.setDoInput(true);
urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
urlConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
OutputStream os = urlConnection.getOutputStream();
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(os, "UTF-8"));
writer.write(params);
writer.flush();
writer.close();
os.close();
} else {
urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
}
int statusCode = urlConnection.getResponseCode();
/* 200 represents HTTP OK */
if (statusCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
response = convertInputStreamToString(inputStream);
return response;
}
I searched the web and found that use cache is on by default, so these two line might help
urlConnection.setUseCaches(false);
urlConnection.addRequestProperty("Cache-Control", "no-cache");

Append some random parameter i.e. current timestamp to the URL then it will treat as fresh request.
Change This
URL url = new URL(urlString);
To
URL url = new URL(urlString+new Date().getTime());

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