Android Asynchronous Http Client

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A library which handle HTTP calls made from your application. This library make HTTP calls in background thread. So many of us who get errors like "Network Call on UI Thread" can be solved by using this library.

Name of this library is Android Asynchronous Http Client.

Following are some of features of this library.

Features

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
Tiny size overhead to your application, only 25kb for everything
Automatic smart request retries optimized for spotty mobile connections
Automatic gzip response decoding support for super-fast requests
Binary file (images etc) downloading with BinaryHttpResponseHandler
Built-in response parsing into JSON with JsonHttpResponseHandler
Persistent cookie store, saves cookies into your app's SharedPreferences

Following code demonstrate how to use it.

 AsyncHttpClient client = new AsyncHttpClient();
 client.get("http://www.google.com", new AsyncHttpResponseHandler() 
 {
     @Override public void onSuccess(String response)
     { 
         System.out.println(response); 
     }
  });

You can see that its very easy to use this library.