httpclient-android

Build script and dependencies to create repackaged upstream version of HttpClient and dependencies (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 successful, 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