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HttpClient repackaged for Android

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httpclient-android

Name: httpclient-android
Brand: httpclient-android
SKU: //smarek/httpclient-android
Rating: 2.27 (208 reviews)

Build script and dependencies to create repackaged upstream version of HttpClient and depdendencies (HttpMime, HttpCore, HttpClient-Cache) and get it working on Android API version from 3 to 23

Current version: 4.5.8 (originating from upstream HttpClient 4.5.8 version)

Usage

Download the repository and simply hit

./build.sh

script

Dependencies

Required dependencies are: - JDK 6 or newer - Gradle 2.4 or newer -

find

grep

svn

patch

and

sed

(or

gsed

for OS X) - for Kerberos support you need

Android NDK

git

and

swig

Configuration

Build params (ENV variables) you can use: -

USE_GRADLE_WRAPPER

, set to

if you want to use current Gradle from PATH -

UPDATE_UPSTREAM

, whether the build script should download SVN/GIT/... sources again (useful for recurring builds) -

SED_CMD

used variant of SED utility (default is

sed -i

on linux and

gsed -i

on Mac OS X) -

INCLUDE_JGSS_API

, experimental, whether to include Kerberos API and Negotiate, SPNego, GGS, Kerberos Auth schemes implementation -

VERBOSE

, set to

to get more verbose output

Maven Central

This repository version will publish the library under namespace

cz.msebera.android:httpclient:4.5.8

Maven Local

Using

gradle installArchives

will install the library to local Maven repository

Gradle

Gradle dependency string, once you have it installed

dependencies {
  compile "cz.msebera.android:httpclient:4.5.8"
}

Or you can simply depend on the project, like this (

httpclient-android

is resulting Gradle project dir)

gradle
dependencies {
  compile project("/path/to/generated/project/httpclient-android")
}

Testing the library on the device

To test the library, you can use provided android app template, in the /testing-android-app folder

This template currently just shows the response from https://httpbin.org/headers if successfull, and the error message otherwise

cd testing-android-app
./gradlew clean instalDebug
adb shell am start -n cz.msebera.android.httpclient.test/.MainActivity

If everything goes well, you should see, within seconds after running the last command, json with http headers of just finished HttpGet