New Android 5.1 Deprecated classes which could affect on the library in future

[SlavVv]

The org.apache.http classes and the AndroidHttpClient class have been deprecated in Android 5.1.

This is from the new Android 5.1 APIs update. https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-5.1.html#http

[panxw]

Maybe you could transfer to android volley, or implement this library by URLConnection.
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/URLConnection.html

[dkozel]

smarek has said that the library will use a port of the Apache HttpClient for future releases as the version shipped with Android is frozen (and now deprecated) at 4.0 beta.
https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.3.x/android-port.html

"in branch 1.5.0 we plan on go away from Android provided version of HttpClient and replace it with android port" -smarek #775

[smarek]

Thank you and yes, I'll be pushing 1.5.0 branch forward, so we won't fall into problems as those classes will be removed in future Android version.

[kjkrum]

Apache HTTP has been removed from the M preview: http://developer.android.com/preview/behavior-changes.html

[titanseason]

@kjkrum Android-async-http works well on Android M, I debuged this last week

[smarek]

@titanseason should not work, how come?

[kjkrum]

@titanseason What version? Only the 1.5.x branch should work on M. If an earlier version works, Google might have "removed" Apache HTTP by removing it from the Android SDK stub library, similar to the way they remove methods with the @hide annotation. This would make sense, since it would prevent massive breakage of existing apps. If this is how they handled it, future versions of android-async-http could be built against a stub library of Apache HTTP instead of incorporating the whole thing and bloating apps that use it.

[kjkrum]

(Though that would be a gamble, since Google might actually remove Apache HTTP at some point in the future.)

[titanseason]

@kimiyash
I download Android M preview image for Nexus 5 at https://developer.android.com/preview/download.html, and update my Nexus 5 Device with the image.

Android-async-http (Version 1.4.6) works well on my Nexus 5.

By the way, my Android project target in project.properties is "target=android-19"

[kjkrum]

Then they must have only removed Apache HTTP from the stub library. Version 1.4.x will continue to run, it just won't be compilable against M or later SDKs.