How to call a RESTful web service from Android?

Question

I have written a REST web service in Netbean IDE using Jersey Framework and Java.

For every request the user needs to provide a username and a password, I know that

Answer 1

I used OkHttpClient to call restful web service. It's very simple.

OkHttpClient httpClient = new OkHttpClient();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
                .url(url)
                .build();

Response response = httpClient.newCall(request).execute();
String body = response.body().string()