Now that SSLSocketFactory is deprecated on Android, what would be the best way to handle Client Certificate Authentication?

Question

I am working on an Android app that requires Client Certificate Authentication (with PKCS 12 files). Following the deprecation of all that\'s apache.http.*, we

Answer 1

Apparently, there are two SSLSocketFactory classes. HttpClient has its own one, and that is deprecated along with the rest of HttpClient. However, everybody else will be using the more conventional javax.net.ssl edition of SSLSocketFactory, which is not deprecated (thank $DEITY).