Java tutorial
/* * (c) 2011 Anthony Sandrin * This code is licensed under MIT license (see LICENSE.txt for details) */ package me.sandrin.xkcdwidget; import android.os.AsyncTask; import android.util.Log; import org.apache.http.HttpEntity; import org.apache.http.HttpResponse; import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient; import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet; import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class GetJsonTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> { @Override protected String doInBackground(String... params) { String url = params[0]; String jsonText = null; try { HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(url); HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget); HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity(); InputStream is = entity.getContent(); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "iso-8859-1"), 8); jsonText = reader.readLine(); } catch (IOException e) { Log.e("XKCD", "Unable to get XKCD Json.", e); } return jsonText; } }