Introduction

Version 1.4 is built on top of Android stock version of HttpClient, which is Google's fork of HttpClient 3.x. This means that some advanced functions of the protocol (ex. HTTP PATCH or some AUTH methods such as NTLM or SPNEGO) are unavailable due to limitations of the underlying HttpClient implementation.

Versions

Stable, all problems are known: 1.4.4
Unstable, with known limitations and fixes from 1.4.4: 1.4.5-SNAPSHOT (Compiled jar is available from here)

Tracking issues

• Current 1.4.5: https://github.com/loopj/android-async-http/issues?milestone=2&state=open
• Next 1.4.6: https://github.com/loopj/android-async-http/issues?milestone=4&state=open

Features since 1.4.4

• Overpassing self-signed SSL certificates with MySSLSocketFactory implementation
• Response Handlers
  • Receiving response to given File using FileAsyncHttpResponseHandler
  • Receiving JSON data, deserialized using Android JSON implementation, JsonHttpResponseHandler
  • Providing custom JSON deserialization library using BaseJsonHttpResponseHandler
  • Providing your own variant of AsyncHttpResponseHandler by implementing interface ResponseHandlerInterface
  • Receiving binary data (such as images or encrypted blobs) using BinaryHttpResponseHandler

Features since 1.4.5

• Response Handlers
  • Receiving progress of upload and download (see ResponseHandlerInterface#sendProgressMessage)
  • Processing partially received data using DataAsyncHttpResponseHandler
• Preemtive HTTP BASIC authentication (see DataAsyncHttpResponseHandler)
• Correctly processing 301 and 302 redirects (see MyRedirectHandler)
• Creating JSON objects and streaming them using provided HttpEntity subclass JsonStreamerEntity