httpclient-android

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 0 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 1 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)

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