Accessing the web WITHOUT a webview
<p>I'd like to know if there's any way to access a web page from an Android phone without using a WebView component. I've been following up some tutorials on how to program for Android and the ones that mention web access always use this component to load a URL, and then it shows the resulting page on the screen. However, I'm developing an application that will need to pass some data to a website (id, name, points, etc.) and I don't want to show the response on the screen - I'll still want to record the response on a log file, I just don't want to show the page onscreen. Is there a class or method that allows this to be done? If not, is there a way to hide this component from the screen somehow? I tried to tag it as 'invisible' in main.xml but with no success.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for your help!</p>
