diff --git a/tns-core-modules-widgets/android/widgets/src/main/java/org/nativescript/widgets/Async.java b/tns-core-modules-widgets/android/widgets/src/main/java/org/nativescript/widgets/Async.java
index 9aa553f00..0da7062a9 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules-widgets/android/widgets/src/main/java/org/nativescript/widgets/Async.java
+++ b/tns-core-modules-widgets/android/widgets/src/main/java/org/nativescript/widgets/Async.java
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ public class Async {
                     // apply timeout
                     if (options.timeout > 0) {
                         connection.setConnectTimeout(options.timeout);
+                        connection.setReadTimeout(options.timeout);
                     }
 
                     // don't follow redirect (30x) responses; by default, HttpURLConnection follows them.