Calling REST service with Spring RestTemplate for Android
The Spring for Android project supports the usage of the Spring Framework in an Android environment. This includes the ability to use RestTemplate as the REST client for your Android applications. Spring for Android also provides support for integrating Spring Social functionality into your Android application, which includes a robust OAuth based, authorization client and implementations for popular social web sites, such as Twitter and Facebook.Read more.
This example, we will use the service rest online JSONPlaceholder.
apply plugin: 'android' android { compileSdkVersion 19 buildToolsVersion "19.0.3" defaultConfig { minSdkVersion 8 targetSdkVersion 19 versionCode 1 versionName "1.0" } buildTypes { release { runProguard false proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.txt' } } packagingOptions { exclude 'META-INF/ASL2.0' exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE' exclude 'META-INF/license.txt' exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE' exclude 'META-INF/notice.txt' } } dependencies { compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:+' compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar']) compile 'org.springframework.android:spring-android-rest-template:1.0.1.RELEASE' compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.3.2' }