Replacement for deprecated DefaultHttpClient

Question

I am using DefaultHttpClient in my current app.

I read this article which states that the DefaultHttpClient is deprecated: http://developer.android.com/reference/org/apache/http/impl/client/DefaultHttpClient.html

It points to this website: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/09/androids-http-clients.html?m=1 which is too old and written in 2011.

I am going to drop using DefaultHttpClient and follow this article which uses Apache’s HttpClient: http://loopj.com/android-async-http/

I wonder if this is the right path to take when programming in 2015 targeting android API 19 and above.

Answer 1

Ok I waited for a week and so and did all lots of researches. I think I have found the answer.

I strongly advise for beginners and even professional Android programmers to know the existence of very helpful library called Retrofit:

Extensive document is present at http://square.github.io/retrofit/

The Stack overflow also has samples for almost everything one need to do over a network to contact a remote REST service.

It is better to stop using HttpURLConnection and AsyncTask. Retrofit is way faster and supports all failure situations out of the box.