Best way to perform a GET request without any other libraries

Question

It looks like the Apache client is deprecated. Is there another way to make an http request without installing fancy libraries?

Should I use the Apache client anyway? How do I import it? My Android Studio does not want to import HttpClient, HttpGet, ...

Answer 1

Have you tried HttpURlConnection?

Here's a sample code that get the image from a server and displaying it to a Image view:

private class SendHttpRequestTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Bitmap> {
            @Override
            protected Bitmap doInBackground(String... params) {
                try {
                    URL url = new URL("http://xxx.xxx.xxx/image.jpg");
                    HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
                    connection.setDoInput(true);
                    connection.connect();
                    InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();
                    Bitmap myBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input);
                    return myBitmap;
                }catch (Exception e){
                    Log.e(TAG,e.getMessage());
                }
                return null;
            }

            @Override
            protected void onPostExecute(Bitmap result) {
                    ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(ID OF YOUR IMAGE VIEW);
                    imageView.setImageBitmap(result);
            }
    }

I hope i could help