MD5 hashing in Android

Question

I have a simple android client which needs to \'talk\' to a simple C# HTTP listener. I want to provide a basic level of authentication by passing username/password in POST r

Answer 1

MD5 is a bit old, SHA-1 is a better algorithm, there is a example here.

(Also as they note in that post, Java handles this on it's own, no Android specific code.)