How to use OKHTTP to make a post request?

Question

I read some examples which are posting jsons to the server.

some one says :

OkHttp is an implementation of the HttpUrlConnection interface p

Answer 1

1. Add the following to the build.gradle
   

compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.7.0'

2. Create a new thread, in the new thread add the following code.

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
MediaType MIMEType= MediaType.parse("application/json; charset=utf-8");
RequestBody requestBody = RequestBody.create (MIMEType,"{}");
Request request = new Request.Builder().url(url).post(requestBody).build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();