Apache DefaultHttpClient invocation results in “java.lang.RuntimeException: Stub!”

Question

I\'m dipping my toes into Android development. I have a project that will interface with a RESTful resource and I\'m trying to figure out how to do a basic GET with params o

Answer 1

I think this is Android's way of telling you that you cannot run that unit test on that platform. Unit tests that involve interacting with the Android platform (e.g. the network in this case) need to be run on an actual Android device or a functioning Android emulator.

(They cannot be run in the context of regular Eclipse. In the early days, you needed Android plugins for Eclipse. These days (since 2013) you should be using Android Studio which build on Intellij.)

Apparently, what you were actually doing was running the unit tests against the stub classes provided by the Android SDK. This cannot ever work.