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Note (Oct 2020): AsyncTask used in the following answer has been deprecated in Android API level 30. Please refer to Official documentation or this blog post for a more updated example
Updated (June 2017) Answer which works on Android 6.0+. Thanks to @Rohit Suthar, @Tamis Bolvari and @sudhiskr for the comments.
public class CallAPI extends AsyncTask<String, String, String> {
public CallAPI(){
//set context variables if required
}
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
}
@Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
String urlString = params[0]; // URL to call
String data = params[1]; //data to post
OutputStream out = null;
try {
URL url = new URL(urlString);
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
out = new BufferedOutputStream(urlConnection.getOutputStream());
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out, "UTF-8"));
writer.write(data);
writer.flush();
writer.close();
out.close();
urlConnection.connect();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
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