Android HttpClient : NetworkOnMainThreadException

Question

I have some code below:

protected void testConnection(String url) {
    DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpGet httpget = new Htt         


        

Answer 1

On ICS and later you cannot do network operations on the UI thread anymore. Instead you are forced to create a new thread and do your networking stuff there.

Possible tools are Android's AsyncTask and the normal Java Thread.

A good tutorial can be found here: Android Threads, Handlers and AsyncTask - Tutorial