Best way to send HTTP GET requests ansynchronously in Android?

Question

In an Android app, I have to make multiple GET requests to a URL in order to transmit data to an external server (that\'s how the third party API works).

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Answer 1

You could do your own async HTTP GET calls using AsyncTask but I would recommend against it unless you're doing it from a learning point of view. If you want a nice, clean and stable solution I'd suggest that you use the well known Android Asynchronous Http Client 3rd party library. From the site:

"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."

Making a GET is as easy as:

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