A Callback-Based Http Client Library for Android.
Overview
An asynchronous callback-based Http client for Android built on top of Apache’s HttpClient libraries. All requests are made outside of your app’s main UI thread, but any callback logic will be executed on the same thread as the callback was created using Android’s Handler message passing. You can also use it in Service or background thread, library will automatically recognize in which context is ran.
Features
- Using upstream HttpClient of version 4.3.6 instead of Android provided DefaultHttpClient
- Compatible with Android API 23 and higher
- Make asynchronous HTTP requests, handle responses in anonymous callbacks
- HTTP requests happen outside the UI thread
- Requests use a threadpool to cap concurrent resource usage
- GET/POST params builder (RequestParams)
- Multipart file uploads with no additional third party libraries
- Streamed JSON uploads with no additional libraries
- Handling circular and relative redirects
- Tiny size overhead to your application, only 90kb for everything
- Automatic smart request retries optimized for spotty mobile connections
- Automatic gzip response decoding support for super-fast requests
- Binary protocol communication with BinaryHttpResponseHandler
- Built-in response parsing into JSON with JsonHttpResponseHandler
- Saving response directly into file with FileAsyncHttpResponseHandler
- Persistent cookie store, saves cookies into your app’s SharedPreferences
- Integration with Jackson JSON, Gson or other JSON (de)serializing libraries with BaseJsonHttpResponseHandler
- Support for SAX parser with SaxAsyncHttpResponseHandler
- Support for languages and content encodings, not just UTF-8
Library Link & More Information About Setup
