URLConnection or HTTPClient : Which offers better functionality and more efficiency?

Question

I looking to create a login form for an android application. I want to use a post method to send information to the server side where it is handle by a PHP file; which in tu

Answer 1

According to the android team you should be using HttpURLConnection on Gingerbread and better, since that is where they will put new development effort.

http://android-developers.blogspot.de/2011/09/androids-http-clients.html

Edit: These days I have found okhttp by Square, that includes SPDY support and automatic retries: https://github.com/square/okhttp