Introducing Android HTTP clients
In recent times, the ability to send and receive data from remote servers has become an essential feature that all applications should enforce in order to create dynamic and impressive experiences. Today almost every application uses the network to pull up data information, execute remote business logic operations, and download or upload resources.
The network interactions that happen between the application and a remote server are typically defined as a set of request/response messages that traverse the network using a network protocol.
In general, the HTTP protocol is often used to transport messages between each peer, and the Android SDK comes with two high-level HTTP clients available out of the box to send and receive data: AndroidHttpClient and HttpURLConnection.
The HTTP communication protocol is a stateless, standard text-based application protocol maintained by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is widely...
