Android HTTP get methods
<p>I have written a number of applications for blackberry and am just starting in Android.  It seems to me that android has a lot more built in functions.  I am starting by recreating some of my BB apps on Android and on one I take a few xml sites and parse them out.  On blackberry I implemented this by creating a class that extended a thread.  I would construct a new instance of this class with the parameters of my http request and it would call a function back in my main class, sending it the results.  I am tempted to reuse my code, but am curious if android has something better built in.  I have been looking at the handler class as well as possible using a service.</p>

<p>Bascially, I would like to start a new thread that will return a document of a specific url.</p>

<p>Thanks! </p>
