Introduction

This is a repackaging of HttpClient 4.3.1 for Android. The version of HttpClient in the Android SDK is 4.0beta2. There have been several updates to HttpClient and some much-needed bugfixes like auth caching since the 4.0beta.

Since Google has deprecated HttpClient in favor of Java standard HttpURLConnection I created a script to convert
a stock release of Apache's HttpClient into an Android
library.

Get official Android port from Apache

An official Android port from Apache was released here:
https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.3.x/android-port.html'>https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.3.x/android-port.html
It's also available on Maven Central

Updates

22nd February 2014
1.2.1: Upgraded to HttpClient 4.3.2 and HttpCore 4.3.2
Downloads:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzK7b0m5WJsfSktseFNvX09wVms/edit?usp=sharing'>https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzK7b0m5WJsfSktseFNvX09wVms/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzK7b0m5WJsfZDNOVnlhVmhzTFk/edit?usp=sharing'>https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzK7b0m5WJsfZDNOVnlhVmhzTFk/edit?usp=sharing

16th January 2014
1.2.0: Upgraded to HttpClient 4.3.1 and HttpCore 4.3.1
Better late than never! :) Thanks go to Christian H. for updating the script.

1st March 2013
1.1.2: Upgraded to HttpClient 4.2.3 and HttpCore 4.2.3

11th July 2012
1.1.1: Upgraded to HttpClient 4.2.1 and HttpCore 4.2.1
SPNego and Kerberos authentication were removed because of dependencies on org.ietf.jgss

9th May 2012
1.1.0: Upgraded to HttpCore 4.2
Be aware of incompatibilities to HttpCore 4.1.4, see http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES.txt'>Release Notes

27th March 2012
1.0.4: Added HttpMime
Upgraded to HttpClient 4.1.3

14th February 2012
1.0.3: Added internal checks into HttpClientAndroidLog (Thanks Federico)
Added a copy of Base64.java to be compatible against Android 1.5
Added a bugfix from https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/15755/1//COMMIT_MSG'>Android Source tree (Thanks Louis)

2nd January 2012
1.0.2: Updated to HttpCore 4.1.4 and added HttpClient-Cache

4th October 2011
1.0.1: Bugfix for Basic Authentication
Decided to use version numbering so users do not get confused in the future.

Changes to stock HttpClient

• Renamed all packages org.apache.http to ch.boye.httpclientandroidlib
• Deleted all classes dependent on org.ietf.* (SPNEGO authentication)
  
• Replaced org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64 with a copy of Android's Base64
• Created a new class HttpClientAndroidLog to replace org.apache.commons.logging

Logging debug/error/warn information

HttpClientAndroidLog is just a simple class which has the same interface as the commons.logging.Log class. Logging can be enabled for example with

  DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();


  httpClient.log.enableDebug(true);

Now all debug information will be output to Android LogCat. This is more or less a very simple hack which will perhaps be replaced in the future.

How to use this library

There are 2 options: