With honeycomb you can not perform a networking operation on its main thread as documentation says. For this reason you must use handler or asynctask. There is no another way to do it.
here you can find 2 examples written in turkish about networking operation. maybe they help.
3. party kütüphane kullanmadan (ksoap2), (it includes english translation)
AsyncTask class'tan dönen parametreyi handle etmek. , google translate
