ASIHTTPRequest equivalent for Android or any HTTP request manager/wrapper?

I'm developing an app that will make extensiv开发者_开发技巧e HTTP requests.

I know for a fact that iOS has a third-party library called ASIHTTPRequest to manage and organize all these requests, making it much easier and less tedious.

Is there a similar library available for Android?

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According to this talk, if you're targeting pre-Gingerbread versions (<2.3) you should stick to Apache Http Client library. If however you're targeting Gingerbread or later, you will be safer to use the java.net.URLConneciton class as recommended by the Google engineer.

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Use https://github.com/loopj/android-async-http
Just like ASIHTTPRequest, this lib makes is easy to make async requests without worrying about threads or async tasks.
It even includes a JSON parser.

You can also use http://code.google.com/p/android-query/wiki/AsyncAPI which looks good

Update : Android has released which does exactly what you want : http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/06/android-volley-library-example.html