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Dig into Https client connection in Android Table of Contents reference resources Java Keytool Certificate formats Use Https in Android Client Java SSLContext Two ways SSL verification TLSDemo 1 reference resources http://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-ssl.html http://ogrelab.ikratko.com/using-android-volley-with-self-signed-certificate/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2138940/import-pem-into-java-key-store http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3685548/java-keytool-easy-way-to-add-server-cert-from-url-port 2 Java Keytool Java keystore is like a database which store certificates and private keys and protect them by a password maybe. There are at least three format s of that, JKS, PKCS12, JCEKS, and many more. But in this tutorial, I only consider two formats of that JKS which is the Java's default format and BKS which is the Android's default format. How to import a certificate to the BKS style KeyStore? First step was to pr...

Async Networking in Android (Deprecated, I never use those technology anymore.)  Table of Contents Background Source code examples 1 Background A few days ago, people ask me a question, How to write an application which has to download the resources from the network? or Let me narrow the scope, how to write an android app, which can download the images from the Internet with HTTP protocol and insert the image into a view container like a ListView. So, in this scenario, because the networking connections are always resources burden works, the solution is always put the heavy jobs into the background threads. Following is the equation to that problem. Threads + Cache + HttpClient I found three ways to met this equation after study that topic. Use AsyncTask(thread) directly, put the networking job into a background AsyncTask. Use ThreadPool, which is better than AsyncTask, especially in massive networking connection scenario. Use Volley library, which is ...