Name: HttpURLConnection
Uploaded: 2017-03-14T08:56:28.000Z
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Modal verbs - A2

that you can use to make HTTP requests in Android.

Now, you can also use third-party libraries that

For example, OKHttp is a popular open-source HTTP client

created by the Square Mobile Payments Company.

They've done a lot of open-source work for Android.

receive data across the web using an HTTP connection.

actually opening up an HTTP connection is actually pretty straightforward.

Then to actually fire off the connection, and

be ready to return results, you go ahead and you specify the RequestMethod.

In this case, we're going to use the GET HTTP method.

Then, you go ahead and call Connect and then finally, you call getInputStream

on your connection which is going to be the input stream containing the results.

Now, despite the of the codes that you see here,

the Android platform is actually handling many of the complex networking

In other words, Android as an operating system is actually working with your

device's hardware to setup connection and handled some of the physical steps

that need to happen in order for the communication to work.